Khabaar : an immigrant journey of food, memory, and family
- Author/Creator:
- Ghosh, Madhushree, author
- Publication/Creation:
- Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]
- Resource Type:
- Book
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Additional/Related Title Information
- Full Title:
- Khabaar : an immigrant journey of food, memory, and family / Madhushree Ghosh
- Series Titles:
- FoodStory
FoodStory.
Related Names
- Additional Author/Creators:
- University of Iowa Press, publisher
Subjects/Genre
- Genre:
- Cookbooks
Biographies
Biography
Cookbook - Subjects:
- Ghosh, Madhushree--Family
Cooking, Bengali
Scientists--United States--Biography
East Indian American women--Biography
Description/Summary
- Table of Contents:
- Peyaara se pyaar, or, The love for guava -- Maachher Bazaar, fish for life -- Feeding the future ex-in-laws, or, Mr. and Mrs. Mohgan's able assistant -- In search of goat curry -- When Indira died -- Dessert in Kolkata summers : search for naru -- Orange, green, and white : an Indian marriage -- Of papers, pekoe, poetry, and protests in 2019 India -- Memory and what makes a family -- The rituals of the Great Pause.
- Summary:
- "Khabaar is a food memoir/narrative braiding global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration and indenture focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners asking the simple question of what it means to belong, and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country. This question is braided into the author's own immigration journey as a daughter of refugees to America, as a woman of color in science, a woman who left an abusive marriage and a woman who keeps her parents' memory alive through her Bengali food"--
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- xiv, 194 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm.
Additional Identifiers
- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9937434788702486
- ISBN:
- 9781609388232
1609388232 - OCLC Number:
- 1269413501
- Barcode:
- 010003518762
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