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Bezig met laden... Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spicesdoor Chitrita Banerji
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Food, history, culture all wrapped up into one book. Took a while to finish this one as I didn't finish it in time and it had to go back to the library and spend some time with other readers before I could get it back and finish. Glad I persisted. ( ) Engaging and hunger-inducing! I came away from this book fascinated and awed by the sheer variety of cultures and cuisines in India. A good storyteller, Banerji does a great job of conveying the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of the country's different regions, and clearly explains how dishes, even the most seemingly timeless ones, have incorporated ingredients and influences from outside and changed over the years. Some of the less common foods are fading, but thankfully "Eating India" helps preserve their memories -- and, as often happens, they may not be gone forever.
It is a gem of a book that will reveal an unfamiliar world to the beginning epicure, whilst luring the more experienced into wondrous new adventures.
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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