"Come for the recipes, stay for the stories"
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Come eat, Grandma!
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"Come for the recipes, stay for the stories" 〰️ Come eat, Grandma! 〰️
Cookbook Memoir
Come eat, Grandma!
Recipes and Stories of Thai Home Cooking
Written By VC Tang
Illustrated by Emily Ramai Kim
About the Book
Come Eat, Grandma! is a collection of flashbacks, lessons, and recipes along a personal journey of growth in the kitchen. The menu ranges from popular Thai favorites to lesser-known home comfort food to the meeting of Thai and Chinese flavors that represent the Teochow migrants in VC’s family line.
This book is for those who want to enjoy the vibrance that is Thai home cuisine – and furthermore, for those who want to fully embrace in the toiling and savoring of preparing our food.
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ISBN: 9780578377056
Publication Date: Sep 12, 2022
Language: English
Pages: 82
Printed and shipped through Lulu Press, Inc.
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“Come for the recipes, stay for the stories.
VC generously shares her experience as a Thai kid figuring out her identity in America, along with recipes of homey Thai dishes that were significant in her life. As a Thai raising a young child in Canada, I can see my future son in these stories and am glued to the pages.”
– Pailin Chongchitnant, creator of Hot Thai Kitchen
For book talks, author visits, cooking demos, and more, send VC Tang a message!
Photo by Magali Gauthier.
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“Tang is the perfect example of how one’s passion for cultural arts, history and traditions can become a career. In times of conflict, divisiveness or trauma, providing people and communities with sources of commonality and self-discovery fosters a more empathetic and judgment-free society.”
– “AAPI Voices: VC Tang: Author, Storyteller and Cultural Practitioner,”
Redwood City Pulse
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“She compares the process of learning about her heritage to climbing a mountain. Learning to cook Thai cuisine was one mountain, while learning the Thai language was an even steeper mountain. She also spent time traveling throughout Thailand independently and working with the youth performing group at the Berkeley Thai Temple as part of her self-directed immersion into the culture.”
– “How a self-taught home cook in Redwood City channeled her heritage through her debut Thai cookbook memoir,”
The Six Fifty & Peninsula Foodist
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“I want this book to live out its values beyond its pages by bringing people together around stories and food in new and old ways.”
– “How my first book was born...”
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