A TASTE OF MY LIFE

A TASTE OF MY LIFE A MEMOIR IN ESSAYS AND RECIPES

CHITRITA BANERJI

From the Author of Eating India and Two-time Winner of the Sophie Coe Prize, the world's best prize for writing on food history A Taste of My Life is both the story of Chitrita Banerji’s life as an immigrant food writer as well as a story of immigration, belonging, nostalgia, and history, through the lens of food. In this memoir styled like a three-course meal, she offers a collection of moving and beautiful essays, as she explores the way food shapes our relationships and societies at large. A collection to relish!

CHITRITA BANERJI

Chitrita Banerji is a Bengali-American writer who examines the relationships between memory, history, culture, religion, and food in her works. She is the author of several books on Indian food and culture, the latest being Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices. Time Out, London, listed it among the best new food books of 2008. Her work has been included in Best American Travel Writing 2006. Her other work include Mirror City, a novel, and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu which is her first biography.