Insatiable: my hunger for life

By:

De, Shobhaa

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: HarperCollins Publishers Haryana 2023Description: xviii, 283 pISBN:

9789356296008

Subject(s):

Fiction

DDC classification:

954 DE

Summary: ts a promise Indias most beloved writer holds as she marks her seventy-fifth birthdaywith a bubbly memoir about food, friends and family. In Insatiable: My Hunger for Life, Shobhaa takes us through a year of her encounters with food, people and places, reminding us at every turn how food connects people in the most unexpected places and in delightful ways. The most delicious lassi in Jaipur. Obsessions with kasundi. Conversations with a foodie Nobel Laureate. Juicy secrets of Mumbais venerated Willingdon Club. M.F. Husains last food khwaish as he lay on his deathbed. The right way to eat tadgolas. The many ways one can ruin a Bengali fish curry. These stories and more take us to festivals around the country and exotic locales, into the dining rooms of politicians, artists and celebrities, to parties and social events, and, more privately, into her home, where foodis always the prime subject of conversation.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute of Management LRC General Stacks	Fiction	954 DE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		006006

ts a promise Indias most beloved writer holds as she marks her seventy-fifth birthdaywith a bubbly memoir about food, friends and family.

In Insatiable: My Hunger for Life, Shobhaa takes us through a year of her encounters with food, people and places, reminding us at every turn how food connects people in the most unexpected places and in delightful ways.

The most delicious lassi in Jaipur. Obsessions with kasundi. Conversations with a foodie Nobel Laureate. Juicy secrets of Mumbais venerated Willingdon Club. M.F. Husains last food khwaish as he lay on his deathbed. The right way to eat tadgolas. The many ways one can ruin a Bengali fish curry. These stories and more take us to festivals around the country and exotic locales, into the dining rooms of politicians, artists and celebrities, to parties and social events, and, more privately, into her home, where foodis always the prime subject of conversation.

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