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Spiegel & Grau
February 2013
On Sale: January 29, 2013
290 pages
ISBN: 0679644881
EAN: 9780679644880
Kindle: B00957T3UC
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Eddie Huang 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—and one of the food world’s
brightest and most controversial young stars. But before he
created the perfect home for himself in a small patch of
downtown New York, Eddie wandered the American wilderness
looking for a place to call his own.
Eddie
grew up in theme-park America, on a could-be-anywhere
cul-de-sac in suburban Orlando, 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, Eddie burned his
way through American culture, defying every “model minority”
stereotype along the way. He obsessed over football, fought
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—from making Southern ribs
with the Haitian cooks in his dad’s restaurant to preparing
traditional meals in his mother’s kitchen to haunting the
midnight markets of Taipei when he was shipped off to the
homeland. After misadventures as an unlikely lawyer, street
fashion renegade, and stand-up comic, Eddie finally threw
everything he loved—past and present, family and food—into
his own restaurant, bringing together a legacy stretching
back to China and the shards of global culture he’d melded
into his own identity.
Funny, raw, and moving, and
told in an irrepressibly alive and original voice, Fresh
Off the Boat recasts the immigrant’s story for the
twenty-first century. It’s a story of food, family, and the
forging of a new notion of what it means to be American
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