Canada Reads duo Saïd M’Dahoma and Jamie Chai Yun Liew spoke about Liew’s novel Dandelion on The Next Chapter with Ali Hassan.
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Living so far from home, he began to miss French pastries, so he started making his own. Through trial and error and by sharing his journey online, he decided to give up his career as a neuroscientist and become a pastry chef full-time.is her first novel, which won her the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop. She also wrote the nonfiction bookis a novel that tells a story of family secrets and migration.
AH: Saïd, you're no stranger to stories of migration yourself. Can you talk about how you related to the migration story in SM: That's interesting. For me, because I was born and raised in France, French pastry is something that is part of me. Like when I smell butter, I immediately think of croissant and I want to eat one immediately. So baking for me was a way to connect back to my French roots, but also my grandmother was a vanilla farmer and I used to see her in Comoros sorting vanilla pods when I was a kid.
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