num_pages: 248
description: Kirpal Singh is riding the slow train to Kashmir. With India passing by his window he reflects on his destination which is also his past: a military camp to which he has not returned for fourteen years.Kirpal called Kip is shy and not yet twenty when he arrives for the first time at General Kumar's camp nestled in the shadow of the Siachen Glacier. At twenty thousand feet the glacier makes a forbidding battlefield; its crevasses claimed the body of Kip's father. Kip becomes an apprentice under the camp's chef Kishen a fiery mentor who guides him toward the heady spheres of food and women.In this place of contradictions erratic violence and extreme temperatures Kip learns to prepare local dishes and delicacies from around the globe. Even as months pass Kip a Sikh feels secure in his allegiance to India firmly on the right side of this interminable conflict. Then one muggy day a Pakistani terrorist with long flowing hair is swept up on the banks of the river and changes everything.Mesmeric mournful and intensely lyrical Chef is a brave and compassionate debut about hope love and memory set against the devastatingly beautiful war-scarred backdrop of Kashmir.
language: English
title: Chef
publisher: Bloomsbury USA