Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780091908935 (0091908930)
Publish date: June 1st 2006
Publisher: Ebury Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
India,
Asia,
Biography Memoir,
Cooking,
Foodie
An enjoyable childhood autobiography, followed by an extensive set of recipes. This is a memoir of a life with its ups and downs and personal experiences--World War II and the Partition play a role but are background to Jaffreys's reflections.
Madhur Jaffrey, the actress, cook, and cookbook writer, gives us a pleasant but not briliant memoir of her childhood growing up in a wealthy, aristocratic, and enormous family in Delhi. There is some mention of the tensions caused by relations between family members, and some evocation of her emotio...