SPICED, SMOKED, PICKLED, PRESERVED: Recipes and Reminiscences from India's Eastern Hills

‘A vision of our past lives in images that are most often, I am not ashamed to say, memories of what we ate, with whom and when . . .’

In this well-seasoned medley of memories and meals, Indranee Ghosh brings together charming vignettes from her youth in the densely forested Khasi Hills and in Bengal with a delectable selection of recipes passed down over three generations. Anecdotes about eccentric kith and kin, folklore from the time of the Second World War and chronicles of Partition are ...