Asha J. Bernard has written what the blurb calls a post-modern rendering of the world through the eyes of two Indian girls. In Mothers and Virgins, the two girls are Syrian Christians from Kerala, friends and confidantes who seek to unify the contradictory and simultaneous worship of motherhood and virginity by the Catholic Church. While [...]
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Food, Syrian Christian Style.
Posted in books, food, india, tagged asha bernard, books, food, india, indian food, kerala, mothers and virgins on 10/05/2010 | 2 Comments »
Nordic Indian
Posted in books, food, india, norway, tagged books, crime, food, norway, pernille rygg on 15/06/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just when I was beginning to despair of ever seeing anything foodie in a Scandinavian novel, I came across the following passage in Pernille Rygg’s The Butterfly Effect. Sure, it’s not Norwegian food, but something is better than nothing, I always think. I open a carton of coconut milk and pour it over the shiny [...]
Kheer and Chapati
Posted in books, food, india, tagged books, food, india on 11/05/2009 | 1 Comment »
The extract about kheer at Lashings and Lashings of Ginger Beer reminded me of this short story I’d read a while ago. In Parini Shroff’s The Hijras, Samiya is worried that her mother-in-law’s intransigence and dislike for the eunuchs will bring their curses upon her new-born baby. That night Samiya attempted to make kheer once [...]
Obstinacy Leads Nowhere
Posted in books, food, india on 07/05/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss has a cook as one of its heroes, and so one would expect much gustatory peroration. One wouldn’t be disappointed. One could be slightly underwhelmed. Some passages remind me of shopping in a Soviet department store. The Soviets had no alternative. Why is this judge so pigheaded as to [...]
