Annapurna's Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold
Mingling sweet, sour, and spicy notes, this inspiring retelling of diverse food legends from India, paired with delicious recipes, will feed mind, body, heart, and soul.

Annapurna, the Indian Goddess of Nourishment, presides over a rich harvest of stories reimagined for the twenty-first-century palate. Here, food manifests as ploy, bargain, symbolic communication, a bone of contention, a lesson, as it weaves through the lives of a cast of characters — kings and commoners, witches and goddesses, gurus and bandits, refugees and travellers.

Each story is followed by a vegetarian recipe offered up by a character. Gathered from the four corners of India, there are well-known dishes like nourishing dal and irresistible mango lassi, novelties like avial and Bengali khichari, as well as a new twist on beloved foods, such as samosas with a peas and coconut filling.

Infused with humane values, expertly blending the timeless and the contemporary, the magical and the everyday, encompassing East, West, and the in-between, this fusion of fiction and food will delight and inspire.
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Annapurna's Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold
Mingling sweet, sour, and spicy notes, this inspiring retelling of diverse food legends from India, paired with delicious recipes, will feed mind, body, heart, and soul.

Annapurna, the Indian Goddess of Nourishment, presides over a rich harvest of stories reimagined for the twenty-first-century palate. Here, food manifests as ploy, bargain, symbolic communication, a bone of contention, a lesson, as it weaves through the lives of a cast of characters — kings and commoners, witches and goddesses, gurus and bandits, refugees and travellers.

Each story is followed by a vegetarian recipe offered up by a character. Gathered from the four corners of India, there are well-known dishes like nourishing dal and irresistible mango lassi, novelties like avial and Bengali khichari, as well as a new twist on beloved foods, such as samosas with a peas and coconut filling.

Infused with humane values, expertly blending the timeless and the contemporary, the magical and the everyday, encompassing East, West, and the in-between, this fusion of fiction and food will delight and inspire.
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Annapurna's Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold

Annapurna's Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold

by Veena Gokhale
Annapurna's Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold

Annapurna's Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold

by Veena Gokhale

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Mingling sweet, sour, and spicy notes, this inspiring retelling of diverse food legends from India, paired with delicious recipes, will feed mind, body, heart, and soul.

Annapurna, the Indian Goddess of Nourishment, presides over a rich harvest of stories reimagined for the twenty-first-century palate. Here, food manifests as ploy, bargain, symbolic communication, a bone of contention, a lesson, as it weaves through the lives of a cast of characters — kings and commoners, witches and goddesses, gurus and bandits, refugees and travellers.

Each story is followed by a vegetarian recipe offered up by a character. Gathered from the four corners of India, there are well-known dishes like nourishing dal and irresistible mango lassi, novelties like avial and Bengali khichari, as well as a new twist on beloved foods, such as samosas with a peas and coconut filling.

Infused with humane values, expertly blending the timeless and the contemporary, the magical and the everyday, encompassing East, West, and the in-between, this fusion of fiction and food will delight and inspire.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781459754591
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Publication date: 07/01/2025
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Veena Gokhale, an immigrant shape shifter, has worked as a journalist, teacher, literary curator, and in the non-profit sector. She has published two works of fiction — Bombay Wali and Other Stories and Land for Fatimah, a novel. Having lived in ten cities across three countries, she now calls Tiohtià:ke-Montreal home.

Table of Contents

1. LAND OF MILK AND SUGAR

  • Ash Reshteh

2. PARVATI BAI AND THE BANDITS

  • Parvati Bai’s Rassa & Goda Masala

3. THE EMPEROR WHO LOVED MANGOES

  • Mango Lassi Akbari

4. THREE GRAINS OF MUSTARD

  • Carrot-Radish Salad

5. ANNAPURNA’S SOUP KITCHEN

  • Goddess Parvati’s Bengali Kitchen

INTERLUDE

  • “The World’s Oldest Curry”

6. DO THE RIGHT THING

  • Mandakini’s Dal

7. THE FISHERMAN AND THE SORCERESS

  • Avial

8. CHEF WILLIAM AND CAPTAIN TYRANT

  • Chef William’s Mulligatawny Soup

9. THE CRIES OF ANIMALS

  • King Vajradev’s Paal Payasam

10. THE TRAVELS OF SANBUSAK

  • Veena’s Karanjis

AFTERWORD

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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