Eating India: an Odyssey Into the Food and Cultural of the Land of Spices/ Chitrita Banerji

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Banerji, Chitrita

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Penguin Books, 2007. New York:Description: xix, 265 pISBN:

9780143063094

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394.120954 BAN-E

Contents:

1.Bengal land of a thousand rivers-- 2.In pursuit o fthe portuguese : from bengal to Goa-- 3.Road food on the highway-- 4.The anglo Indian table-- 5.Pilgrimage and pageantry in Amritsar-- 6.Banquets of the imperial palace Muslim style -- 7.Benaras feasting and fasting in Shiva's city-- 8.Art and texture on the Gujarati platter -- 9.Bombay city by the sea-- 10.Kerala rich cuisines of the pepper kingdom -- 11.The vanishing jews of India-- 12.The Indiagenous pot -- 13.Saffron desires

Summary: "In Eating India, the award-winning writer Chitrita Banerji takes us on a thrilling journey through a national food formed by generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests. In mouth-watering prose, she explores how each wave of newcomers brought innovative new ways to combine the subcontinent's rich native spices, poppy seeds, saffron and mustard with the vegetables, fish, grains and pulses that are the staples of the Indian kitchen. Along the way, she visits traditional weddings, tiffin rooms, city markets, roadside cafes and tribal villages, to find out how India's turbulent history has shaped its people and its cuisine. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Eating India will stand as an authority on Indian food for years to come.

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1.Bengal land of a thousand rivers--
2.In pursuit o fthe portuguese : from bengal to Goa--
3.Road food on the highway--
4.The anglo Indian table--
5.Pilgrimage and pageantry in Amritsar--
6.Banquets of the imperial palace Muslim style --
7.Benaras feasting and fasting in Shiva's city--
8.Art and texture on the Gujarati platter --
9.Bombay city by the sea--
10.Kerala rich cuisines of the pepper kingdom --
11.The vanishing jews of India--
12.The Indiagenous pot --
13.Saffron desires

"In Eating India, the award-winning writer Chitrita Banerji takes us on a thrilling journey through a national food formed by generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests. In mouth-watering prose, she explores how each wave of newcomers brought innovative new ways to combine the subcontinent's rich native spices, poppy seeds, saffron and mustard with the vegetables, fish, grains and pulses that are the staples of the Indian kitchen. Along the way, she visits traditional weddings, tiffin rooms, city markets, roadside cafes and tribal villages, to find out how India's turbulent history has shaped its people and its cuisine. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Eating India will stand as an authority on Indian food for years to come.

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