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A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food by Nilanjana S. Roy (2004-01-01)
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A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food
(A delectable collection of writing on food and its place ...)
A delectable collection of writing on food and its place in our lives that brings together some of the most significant Indian voices over the last century From lavish meals, modern diets and cooking lessons that serve as a rite of passage to fake fasts and real ones, fish, feni, and fiery meals that smack of revenge, this book has something to satisfy every palate. Gandhi s guilt-ridden account of his failed flirtation with eating meat starkly complements Ruchir Joshi s toast to the senses as he describes his characters discovering a truly alternative use for some perfectly innocent shrikhand. In unique gastronomic takes on history, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh and Saadat Hasan Manto ensure that we will never look at chutney, a Tibetan momo or jelly in quite the same way again. Food becomes the less appetizing religious line of control for Abdul Bismillah s guest when a simple meal illustrates the rather thin divide between guest and host, while subtler shades of deprivation mark Anjana Appachana s Anu as she keeps a fast that reeks of prejudice. And in faraway lands, across the seven seas , the search for fresh fish accentuates the loneliness of a life without familiar moorings for Jhumpa Lahiri s Mrs Sen even as Anita Desai s Arun learns from his American hosts the importance of keeping the freezer full . As much about food as it is about good writing, A Matter of Taste serves up a veritable feast for the senses and food for thought to sample or devour, as one pleases.
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Nilanjana Roy
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She was educated at Louisiana Martiniere, Kolkata, and graduated with a degree in literature from Saint Stephen"s College, Delhi, University of Delhi in the 1990s. (Other shortlists: the Tata Literature First Book Award (2012), the Commonwealth First Book Award. Longlisted for the Distinguished Service Cross Prize (2013).).
Career
A collection of essays on books and reading, How To Read in Indian, will be published by HarperCollins in January 2016. Nilanjana is also the editor of A Matter of Taste, an anthology of food writing (Penguin India, 2005). Her column on the reading life for the Business Standard has run for over 15 years.
She has also written on gender for the New York Times and the Kolkata Telegraph, and has contributed to the British Broadcasting Corporation, Outlook, The New Republic, Huffington Post and several other publications.
Over fifteen years in media and publishing, Nilanjana has been chief editor at Westland/ Tranquebar, edited and contributed to the Outlook Books page, Biblio and several other literary magazines/ periodicals and served on the jury for the Crossword Prize and the Distinguished Service Cross Prize. She had a brief second life as Hurree Babu, whom she borrowed from Kipling in order to start India’s first literary blog–Kitabkhana, which the Babu ran for several years.
She has worked extensively on free speech and censorship issues in India. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Caravan, Civil Lincolnshire 6, the Sunday Times, The Hindu and Biblio.
Some of her stories for children have been published in Scholastic’s Spooky Stories, Science Fiction Stories and BeWitched.
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A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food
(A delectable collection of writing on food and its place ...)
- A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food by Nilanjana S. Roy (2004-01-01)
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A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food
