About this title: In a book that is both an appealing account of an unusual childhood and a testament to the power of food to evoke memory, a highly regarded writer on Indian food offers an enchanting memoir of her early life in Delhi, occurring during a time and within a society that has since disappeared. Includes a dozen family recipes. 37 photos in text.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781400042951ISBN:140004295X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: EBURY PRESS (RAND)
Date Published: 2006-06-01
ISBN-13:9780091908935ISBN:0091908930
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2007-10-09
ISBN-13:9781400078202ISBN:1400078202
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2006-10-10
ISBN-13:9781400042951ISBN:140004295X
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, Westminister, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781400042951ISBN:140004295X
Description: Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo 140004295X near fine copy in near fine dust jacket, Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 297 p. Contains: Illustrations, Topics Asia; Biography & Autobiography; Cookery, Indic; General; History; Indian; Non-Fiction; United States; Women cooks. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Ebury Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780091899295ISBN:009189929X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Ebury Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780091908935ISBN:0091908930
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 10/10/2006
ISBN-13:9781400042951ISBN:140004295X
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Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781400042951ISBN:140004295X
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 297 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. like new read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2007-10-09
ISBN-13:9781400078202ISBN:1400078202
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781400078202ISBN:1400078202
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"I liked the idea of this book, a memoir of a childhood in India, but the execution left things to be desired. Ms. Jaffrey grew up in a very wealthy family during the British rule of India and experienced the changeover to Indian self-rule. But many important things were glossed over and instead the focus was an artistic version of her wonderful childhood. It was interesting, but not important. The thing that does stand out in the book is the authors descriptions of food. I really don't have much experience with Indian food, but reading about it made me want to go out and try so many new things!"
"Madhur Jaffrey's Invitation to Indian Cooking cookbook has been a staple in our home since I moved to the US years ago. But I only recently turned to Climbing the Mango Trees because it was suggested to me as an example of evocative writing about childhood memories. It is, indeed, evocative, both in terms of the childhood experience it recreates, but also in terms of the political history that the "story" takes place in. It's not a "story" in a novel sense -- this is clearly memoir as it relates to Jaffrey's love of food and cooking -- but it does contain narrative tension that pulls the "story" forward. I liked the specificity of the food descriptions, the landscape, the flowers, and the many characters that people the book. But I prefer Jaffrey's cookbooks!"
"My gut reaction was to give this book 5 stars, but I just didn't feel like I could. Although Jaffrey was SO good at conjuring up images and smells and (most of all) tastes, I just wanted more out of her tales. They tended to end just as they were getting really interesting, leaving out details that she would start talking about and then back out of. Humph. But I would still recommend this book; it took me FOREVER to read since it made me EVER so hungry. yum! Also the fact that there are approximately 40 recipes in the back didn't help..."
"Jaffrey reflects on her earliest memories in this autobiography. Steeped in Hindu culture and learning, she grew up within an extended well-to-do Delhi family that expected the best of each. Starting with her grandmother's placing honey on her tongue shortly after birth, Jaffrey's life began to arrange itself around all that food represents in Hindu life. Some of her most touching and distressing scenes come with the advent of India's independence and its partition. Jaffrey's friends and schoolmates had from the outset included both Hindu and Muslim, but religious and political strife soon sundered all relations. On the culinary front, Hindu refugees from the subcontinent's northwest regions brought tandoori cooking to Delhi and ultimately made it an integral part of the national cuisine. In an appendix, Jaffrey records recipes for dozens of dishes that figure in her memoir."
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