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Monsoon Diary
Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes | Shoba Narayan
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Shoba Narayans Monsoon Diary weaves a fascinating food narrative that combines delectable Indian recipes with tales from her life, stories of her delightfully eccentric family, and musings about Indian culture. Narayan recounts her childhood in South India, her college days in America, her arranged marriage, and visits from her parents and in-laws to her home in New York City. Monsoon Diary is populated with characters like Raju, the milkman who named his cows after his wives; the iron-man who daily set up shop in Narayans front yard, picking up red-hot coals with his bare hands; her mercurial grandparents and inventive parents. Narayan illumines Indian customs while commenting on American culture from the vantage point of the sympathetic outsider. Her characters, like Narayan herself, have a thing or two to say about cooking and about life. In this creative and intimate work, Narayans considerable vegetarian cooking talents are matched by stories as varied as Indian spicesat times pungent, mellow, piquant, and sweet. Tantalizing recipes for potato masala, dosa, and coconut chutney, among others, emerge from Narayans absorbing tales about food and the solemn and quirky customs that surround it. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Food memoir of growing up in India lots of little vignettes from the authors childhood and early adulthood with recipes 😀. Really enjoy slice of life reading about other cultures. Very enjoyable 4⭐

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MaleficentBookDragon
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Not book related. I love a good online quiz. My anger is a monsoon!
What Type Of Weather Is Your Anger?
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cobwebmoth Hurricane 7y
KrystleTheBookSlayer Cyclone. "You may have one of the more dangerous types of rage..." I AM NOT!!! *transforms into the Hulk* ? 7y
shadowspeak17 Tornado 7y
Avanders Lol I'm also a tornado. There's a calm. Then a spinning vortex of rage. Then calm. 😆 7y
MaleficentBookDragon @Avanders 😍 Spinning vortex of rage. I‘m a wimpy monsoon. 7y
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A memoir with recipes. What an idea! This woman tells her life story through food. Southern Indian food to be exact. The concept of this book was great. Her personal story is a simple middle class one but she paints her homeland and its culinary customs so beautifully.