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A slice of Indian food
Boston-based Chitrita Banerji has wise thoughts on food and culture and a feisty spirit that took her on an adventure around India that culminated in her latest book, Eating India, just launched by Penguin.
Banerji has authored Life and Food in Bengal and The Hour of the Goddess: Memories of Women, Food and Ritual in Bengal. As her titles suggest, she writes about the slice of life in which food plays an important role, and cannot be classified as merely a food writer. “I don’t think I can ever really write about food,” she says. Food for her is about human experience.
“Eating India is more like a journey. It is not pretending to be the last word on anything,” she says. “I was trying to answer some of my own questions on India.” The book, then, had to include history and observe how approaches and traditions have changed. “Too often we start thinking there is only one way of cooking and one way of eating,” remarks the author.
She hopes Indian readers will consider how best to preserve traditions that are in danger of being lost. Like art patrons, there could be food patrons, says the author.
ANJANA RAJAN
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