Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingaham, Vintage Books 2005.
Food and writings on food always fascinate me. Be they food served on table or recipes and scholarly documents I read. Anything to do with food, other than cooking it myself! That is how I came upon this book, surprisingly not in the History section of the bookstore, but in the Recipe section! The mix was too heady and appealing not to pickup – spice, gossip, culture, history,
Indian history through Indian food.
It was a birthday gift from my colleagues that I was suppossed to select myself. Thank you friends!
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