Unexpected enrichment. Reviews of three books on Indian cuisine

    4 August 2023

    2021

    Feeding the Gods. Memories of food and culture in Bengal by Chitrita Banerji (New York: Seagull Books, 2006).

    Picklehead. From Ceylon to Suburbia; a memoir of food family and finding yourself by Rohan Candappa (London: Ebury Press, 2006).

    Culinary Crossings. A symposium on the globalization of Indian cuisine (Seminar 566. October 2006).

    Feast. What we eat, how we eat it (Himāl Vol 19 No 8, November 2006).

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    Paul van Reyk
    My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.