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Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India - Community Reviews back

by Madhur Jaffrey
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Osho
Osho rated it 12 years ago
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.
Books by the Lake
Books by the Lake rated it 15 years ago
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...
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