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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom - A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family (Hardcover)
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Fatty Fatty Boom Boom - A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family (Hardcover)
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'My entire life I have been less fat and more fat, but never not
fat.' According to family lore, when Rabia Chaudry's family
returned to Pakistan for their first visit since moving to the
United States, two-year-old Rabia was more than just a pudgy
toddler. Dada Abu, her fit and sprightly grandfather, attempted to
pick her up but had to put her straight back down, demanding of
Chaudry's mother: "What have you done to her?" The answer was two
full bottles of half-and-half per day, frozen butter sticks to gnaw
on, and lots and lots of American processed foods. And yet, despite
her parents plying her with all the wrong foods as they discovered
Burger King and Dairy Queen, they were highly concerned for the
future for their large-sized daughter. How would she ever find a
suitable husband? There was merciless teasing by uncles, cousins,
and kids at school, but Chaudry always loved food too much to hold
a grudge against it. Soon she would leave behind fast food and come
to love the Pakistani foods of her heritage, learning to cook them
with wholesome ingredients and eat them in moderation. At once a
love letter (with recipes) to fresh roti, chaat, chicken biryani,
ghee, pakoras, shorba, parathay and an often-hilarious dissection
of life in a Muslim immigrant family, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom is also
a searingly honest portrait of a woman grappling with a body that
gets the job done but that refuses to meet the expectations of
others. Chaudry's memoir offers readers a relatable and powerful
voice on the controversial topic of body image, one that dispenses
with the politics and gets to what every woman who has ever
struggled with weight will relate to.
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