Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY Awards) gold medalistKhabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These questions are integral to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.
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Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY Awards) gold medalistKhabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These questions are integral to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.
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Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family
Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY Awards) gold medalistKhabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country? These questions are integral to the author’s own immigrant journey to America as a daughter of Indian refugees (from what’s now Bangladesh to India during the 1947 Partition of India); as a woman of color in science; as a woman who left an abusive marriage; and as a woman who keeps her parents’ memory alive through her Bengali food.
Madhushree Ghosh works in oncology diagnostics, and is a social justice activist. Her work has been awarded a Notable Mention in Best American Essays in Food Writing and a Pushcart Prize nomination. She lives in San Diego, California.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Peyaara se Pyaar or the Love for Guava Chapter 2: Maachher Bazaar, Fish for Life Chapter 3: Feeding the Future Ex-in-Laws or Mr. and Mrs. Mohgan’s Able Assistant Chapter 4: In Search of Goat Curry Chapter 5: When Indira Died Chapter 6: Dessert in Kolkata Summers: Search for Naru Chapter 7: Orange, Green, and White: An Indian Marriage Chapter 8: Of Papers, Pekoe, Poetry, and Protests in 2019 India Chapter 9: Memory and What Makes a Family Chapter 10: The Rituals of the Great Pause