“It amazes me to recall a time when we had so much rice to spare, we could afford to let a little girl blacken it just for fun.”
A five-year-old in Battambang burns her first pot of rice and her mother calls it the best she ever had. Then the Khmer Rouge declare Year Zero and ban pâté, pastries and memory along with books and medicine. Nearly two million people die. The food she still refuses to waste is the history Pol Pot said she never had.