Biting through the skin
Subtitle: an Indian kitchen in America's heartland
By: Nina Mukerjee Furstenau
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9781609381851
Subjects: Social life and customs; Biography; Indic Cooking; Food; Food habits; Childhood and youth; Bengali Americans
Description: At once a traveler's tale, a memoir, and a mouthwatering cookbook, Biting through the Skin offers a first-generation immigrant's perspective on growing up in America's heartland.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Transformation; title: Two brides; title: Little India; title: Journey; title: Table grace; title: Small things satisfied; title: Indian breads; title: Grand Lake menu for a guru; title: An Indian kitchen in Kansas; title: Attic fans and flying typewriters; title: Mother tongue; title: On the road with Amiya and Rani; title: All our Tupperware is stained with turmeric; title: Strength of a nation; title: Street foods; title: Six recipe cards, a wing and a prayer, circa 1984; title: Bishshwayya; title: A (not so) funny thing happened on the way to Didu's house; title: Pop culture India.