Climbing the Mango Trees
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Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey
The enchanting autobiography of the seven-time James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and acclaimed actress who taught America how to cook Indian food.
Whether climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard in Delhi or picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint, tucked into freshly baked spiced pooris, Madhur Jaffrey's life has been marked by food, and today these childhood pleasures evoke for her the tastes and textures of growing up. Following Jaffrey from India to Britain, this memoir is both an enormously appealing account of an unusual childhood and a testament to the power of food to prompt memory, vividly bringing to life a lost time and place. Also included here are recipes for more than thirty delicious dishes from Jaffrey's childhood.
Madhur Jaffrey was born in Delhi, India, and educated there. For the past seven years she has traveled extensively in India, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, the Philippines, and many parts of the world gathering vegetarian recipes and lore for this book. Her first book, An Invitation to Indian Cooking, was published by Knopf in 1973 and in paperback by Vintage in 1975, and she has contributed articles to The New York Times, Gourmet, Travel and Leisure, Smithsonian, etc. She is a teacher of Indian cooking and has completed a television series on the subject for the BBC. She lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781400042951 |
| ISBN 10 | 140004295X |
| Title | Climbing the Mango Trees |
| Author | Madhur Jaffrey |
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| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 2006-10-10 |
| Number of pages | 297 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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