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Fresh off the boat : a memoir
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Fresh off the boat : a memoir

Author: Eddie Huang
Publisher: New York : Spiegel & Grau, ©2013.
Edition/Format:  Book : Biography : English : 1st ed
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The author, one of the food world's brightest and most controversial young stars, is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus, the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night. Huang grew up on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, Florida, raised by a wild family of FOB ("fresh off the boat") hustlers  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Eddie Huang
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Eddie Huang
ISBN: 9780679644880 0679644881 9780679644897 067964489X
OCLC Number: 794359075
Description: 276 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Meet the parents --
God has assholes for children --
Rosetta stone --
Rotten bananas --
This American life --
Mo money, mo problems --
The chain reaction --
Pink nipples --
Len Bias broke my heart --
Special herbs --The end of the beginning --
Night market --
Royal Huang --
I know a little bit --
Hypebeasts --
They don't love me, they just love my tiger style --
World star.
Responsibility: Eddie Huang.

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The author, one of the food world's brightest and most controversial young stars, is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus, the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night. Huang grew up on a could-be-anywhere cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, Florida, raised by a wild family of FOB ("fresh off the boat") hustlers and hysterics from Taiwan. While his father improbably launched a series of successful seafood and steak restaurants, the author burned his way through American culture, obsessing over football, fighting the all-American boys who called him a chink, partied like a gremlin, sold drugs with his crew, and idolized Tupac. His anchor through it all was food. After misadventures as a lawyer, street fashion renegade, and stand-up comic, he finally threw everything he loved into his own restaurant, bringing together a legacy stretching back to China and the shards of global culture he had melded into his own identity.

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