Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
The enchanting autobiography of the seven-time James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and acclaimed actress who taught America how to cook Indian food. "Wistful, funny and tremendously satisfying.... Jaffrey's taste memories sparkle with enthusiasm, and her talent for conveying them makes the book relentlessly appetizing." --The New York Times Book Review Whether climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard in Delhi or picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint, tucked into freshly baked spiced pooris, Madhur Jaffrey's life has been marked by food, and today these childhood pleasures evoke for her the tastes and textures of growing up. Following Jaffrey from India to Britain, this memoir is both an enormously appealing account of an unusual childhood and a testament to the power of food to prompt memory, vividly bringing to life a lost time and place. Also included here are recipes for more than thirty delicious dishes from Jaffrey's childhood.
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“Preparations for the picnic would begin at dawn. All the short ladies of the house-and they were all short-would begin scurrying around in the kitchen, One, would be stirring potatoes in a gingery tomato sauce; another sitting on a low stool, rolling out pooris by the dozen; yet another would be forming meatballs with wetted palms. Pickles had to be removed from pickling jars, fruits packed in baskets and the disposable terracotta mutkainas (han...read more
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