Eating India by Chitrita Banerji

Eating India by Chitrita Banerji

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Indian cuisine is much more diverse than we might imagine. The author takes us on a journey through a national food formed by generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests. She travels across the country, visiting traditional weddings, tiffin rooms, to find out how India's turbulent history has shaped its people, in particular its cuisine.

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Eating India by Chitrita Banerji

Indian cuisine is much more diverse than we might imagine. The author takes us on a journey through a national food formed by generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests. She travels across the country, visiting traditional weddings, tiffin rooms, to find out how India's turbulent history has shaped its people, in particular its cuisine.
Chitrita Banerji grew up in Calcutta and received her master's degree in English from Harvard University. She is an internationally recognized writer on Bengali food, and is the author of Life and Food in Bengal, Bengali Cooking, and Feeding the Gods. A two-time winner of Sophie Coe awards in Food and History, she has written about food for Gourmet, Granta and the American Prospect among others. She lives in Cambridge, Massechusetts.
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ISBN 13 9780747581376
ISBN 10 0747581371
Title Eating India
Author Chitrita Banerji
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2008-02-18
Number of pages 288
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