On Sale: Dec 21, 2006
Page Count: 320 pages
Publisher: Seal Press
ISBN-13: 9781580051910

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While growing up in Versailles, an Indiana farm community, Linda Furiya tried to balance the outside world of Midwestern America with the Japanese traditions of her home life.

As the only Asian family in a tiny township, Furiya’s life revolved around Japanese food and the extraordinary lengths her parents went to in order to gather the ingredients needed to prepare it. As immigrants, her parents approached the challenges of living in America, and maintaining their Japanese diets, with optimism and gusto. Furiva, meanwhile, was acutely aware of how food set her apart from her peers: She spent her first day of school hiding in the girls’ restroom, examining her rice balls and chopsticks, and longing for a Peanut Bullter and Jelly sandwich. Bento Box in the Heartland is an insightful and reflective coming-of-age tale.

Beautifully written, each chapter is accompanied by a family recipe of mouth-watering Japanese comfort food.

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Linda Furiya hails from Versailles, Indiana and graduated from Purdue University. She soon moved to San Francisco where she discovered her love of writing and felt emboldened by the Asian American community. She began writing about ethnicity and food in 1992 when she wrote a syndicated monthly column titles, "From Where I Stand," for San Francisco's Nichibei Times, Los Angeles' Rafu Shimpo, Sacramento's Nikkei West, Seattle's Northewest Nikkei and Montreal Canada's Montreal Bulletin.

Linda's freelance writing experience spans fourteen years and includes food and travel articles published in various newspapers and other periodical such as Asainweek, South China Morning Post, Kikkoman's Chef Forum and Silkroad, a publication on Dragon Airlines. Since 2000, Linda has been writing a monthly column in the food section of the San Francisco Chronicle.

The author has completed culinary training at Meilong Zheng cooking school, a local program focusing on Shanghainese cuisine and currently lives in Shelburne, Vermont with her son and wire hair dachshund, Oscar. She teaches Japanese and Chinese cooking.

Linda Furiya

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Linda Furiya is the author of Bento Box in the Heartland, which had strong and consistent sales out the gate. She has a large readership base in the Bay Area, where, since May 2000, she has written a monthly column in the food section of the San Francisco Chronicle.

Linda has been writing about ethnicity and food since 1992, when she wrote a syndicated monthly column titled “From Where I Stand, essays about my upbringing in a small town in Indiana,” for San Francisco’s Nichibei Times, Los Angeles’ Rafu Shimpo, Sacramento’s Nikkei West, Seattle’s Northwest Nikkei, and Montreal, Canada’s Montreal Bulletin.

She’s been a freelancer for the past fourteen years and has published numerous food and travel articles in various newspapers and other periodicals such as United Airlines’ Hemispheres, the South China Morning Post, Kikkoman’s Chef Forum, Asiaweek (an AOL/Time Warner business publication), and Silkroad, a publication of Hong Kong-based Dragon Airlines.

In July 2002, Linda completed a Chinese culinary program in Shanghai, China. She currently lives in Vermont, and travels to the Bay Area regularly.

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