Essays & Short Fiction
the many identities of kamala Harris
USA Today (November 17, 2020)
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sweet
in Pretty Bitches, edited by Lizzie Skurnick
(Seal Press, March 2020)
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The pleasures of not being lonely
The Georgia Review (Winter 2019)
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Decoding a smoky italian drink
Wall Street Journal
(September 5, 2019)
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THE RAREST OF SENSES
Southern Cultures, Vol. 25, No. 2: “Inside/Outside” (Summer 2019)
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POINTS OF ENTRY: WRITERS ON THE BORDER
PEN America website
(July 3, 2019)
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RECIPES FROM A HUNGRY MAN
Gravy: a quarterly publication from the Southern Foodways Alliance
(Winter 2018)
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Mai Khoi & The Dissidents at National Sawdust
diaCRITICS
(November 19, 2018)
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A Rejected “Travelogue” of Singapore, the Philippines, and Vietnam
diaCRITICS
(October 22, 2018)
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Opinion: The Hypocrisy Of Eating At Mexican Restaurants
NPR’s The Salt
(June 23, 2018)
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Why It’s Every Person’s Responsibility to Stand Up to Racism
O, The Oprah Magazine
(May 2017)
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The Piglet 2017, Semifinal Round:
Dorie’s Cookies v. My Two Souths
Food52 website (March 10, 2017)
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The Deader Mule: A Southern Fiction Roundtable
Southern Cultures, Vol. 22, No. 3: “21c Fiction Issue” (Fall 2016)
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Southern, Reborn
(an essay based on the speech “Always a New Daily Bread”)
Gravy: a quarterly publication from the Southern Foodways Alliance
(Spring 2016)
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Why German Literature Is ‘Seriously Funny’
Publishing Perspectives website (February 25, 2016)
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My Father’s Previous Life
Marie Claire (December 2015)
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Always a New Daily Bread
Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium (October 2015)
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M O R E T H A N M Y M E M O R I E S D E F I N E M E
visual art / word game collaboration with UuDam Nguyen
in “(Re)Collecting the Vietnam War,” Asian American Literary Review, Vol. 6, Issue 2: Fall 2015
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10 Tips For Eating Well When You Have Diabetes
Yahoo Food website (April 27, 2015)
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Goodbye, Bagels. Hello, Syringes. A Food Writer’s Life With Diabetes
Yahoo Food website (April 22, 2015)
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Monique Truong’s Boiling Springs
Our State: Down Home in North Carolina (March 2015)
Our First Steps
in Amazing Place: What North Carolina Means to Writers, edited by Marianne Gringher (University of North Carolina Press, March 2015)
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Festival Neue Literatur: Monique Truong on Translations
Publishing Perspectives website (February 19, 2015)
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A Love Letter to North Carolina’s Red Bridges Barbecue
in Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing, edited by Francis Lam (University of Georgia Press, May 2014)
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Editing Watermark
in Local/Express: Asian American Arts and Community, edited by Curtis Chin, Terry Hong and Parag Khandhar (Asian American Literary Review 2013)
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Enchanted Isle
in A Fork in the Road, edited by James Oseland (Lonely Planet, December 2013)
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How to Be a Man
in The Book of Men, curated by Colum McCann and the editors of Esquire and Narrative4 (Picador, November 2013)
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My Life in Pie
Medium website (October 9, 2013)
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Oak Cottage: Salt
in Hedgebrook Cookbook: Celebrating Radical Hospitality
(She Writes Press, September 2013)
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Ode to the Mangosteen
Spoonwiz website (August 13, 2013)
Great Immigrants, Great Stories: Three Tales of Becoming an American
The Huffington Post website (July 19, 2013)
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Six Dishes: Saigon
Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia (July 2013)
Asian American Foodways: Pho
App for exhibit “I Want the Wide American Earth: An Asian Pacific American Story,” The Smithsonian Institution (June 2013)
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50 Great Books That Will Change Your Life: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Real Simple (June 2013)
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A love letter to North Carolina’s Red Bridges Barbecue Lodge
The Washington Post (November 30, 2012)
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Excerpt from Bitter in the Mouth
South Writ Large (Spring 2012)
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Ten Things I Can’t Do Without
South Writ Large (Spring 2012)
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Ravenous | Sotkamo in Midsummer
T Magazine, The New York Times website (July 24, 2012)
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Ravenous | Fried Baltic Herring, at Home
T Magazine, The New York Times website (June 11, 2012)
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Ravenous | Hello, Helsinki
T Magazine, The New York Times website (May 8, 2012)
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Ravenous | My Idea of Fast Food
T Magazine, The New York Times website (April 3, 2012)
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Ravenous | A New Cookbook
T Magazine, The New York Times website (February 28, 2012)
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Ravenous | The Taste of Home
T Magazine, The New York Times website (January 26, 2012)
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Ravenous | In Praise of Parsley
T Magazine, The New York Times website (December 19, 2011)
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Ravenous | The Stuffing Theory
T Magazine, The New York Times website (November 21, 2011)
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Ravenous | Preserved Unripe Figs
T Magazine, The New York Times website (October 6, 2011)
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Ravenous | Thit Heo Kho
T Magazine, The New York Times website (September 2, 2011)
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The Company of Friends
Ladies’ Home Journal website (August 2011)
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How a Mockingbird Gave Birth to a Canary
Ladies’ Home Journal website (August 2011)
An Age to Remember
Real Simple (March 2011)
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Monique Truong
in Table of Contents, edited by Judy Gelman and Vicky
Levy Krupp (Adams Media, November 2010)
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Lost in Translation
Saveur (October 2010)
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Sealed With A Taste
turmsegler.net (September 1, 2010)
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Pies
Powell’s Books Blog (September 2010)
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Book Notes – Bitter in the Mouth
largehearted boy website (August 2010)
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The Sweet Life
Town & Country (January 2010)
The Most Meaningful Moment of My Day
Real Simple (November 2009)
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My Cherry Amour
Gourmet (September 2008)
nominated for James Beard Foundation Award 2009:
Magazine Feature Writing Without Recipes
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DMemory: “Mangiare un Mangostano
D La Repubblica (November 2007)
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For A Future That’s Always Rosy
The New York Times, Dining & Wine (June 27, 2007)
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Poetry in Motion
Condé Nast Traveler (April 2007)
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Over the Moon: Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips
Men’s Vogue (January/February 2007)
American Like Me
Gourmet, Reading Supplement (August 2006)
nominated for James Beard Foundation Award 2007: M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award
My Father’s Vietnam Syndrome
The New York Times, Op-Ed page (June 18, 2006)
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Real and Flawed
Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 2004)
Opposites Attract
Allure (September 2004)
Many Happy Returns
Food & Wine (July 2004)
reprinted in Best Food Writing 2005, Holly Hughes, ed. (Marlowe & Company 2005)
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The Season de l’Amour
The New York Times Op-Ed page (August 22, 2003)
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Into Thin Air
Time Magazine Asia Edition (August 18-25, 2003)
The Homesick Diner
The Times of London, Saturday Magazine (July 19, 2003)