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Climbing the mango trees : a memoir of a childhood in India

Author: Madhur Jaffrey
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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Actress-writer Jaffrey gives us a memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disappeared. Madhur (meaning sweet as honey) grew up in a large family compound where her grandfather often presided over dinners with forty or more members of his extended family. Picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint and tucked into freshly baked pooris; sampling the  Read more...
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Named Person: Madhur Jaffrey
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Madhur Jaffrey
ISBN: 140004295X 9781400042951
OCLC Number: 67240836
Description: x, 297 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Madhur Jaffrey.
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Actress-writer Jaffrey gives us a memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disappeared. Madhur (meaning sweet as honey) grew up in a large family compound where her grandfather often presided over dinners with forty or more members of his extended family. Picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint and tucked into freshly baked pooris; sampling the lunch boxes of Muslim friends; sneaking tastes of exotic street fare--such memories flavor Jaffrey's story. Independent, sensitive, and curious, as a young girl she loved uncovering her family's many-layered history, and she was deeply affected by their personal trials and by the devastating consequences of Partition. This is both an account of an unusual childhood and a testament to the power of food to evoke memory. Plus a secret ingredient: more than thirty family recipes.--From publisher description.

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