Climbing the Mango Trees
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780091899295 (009189929X)
Publish date: October 6th 2005
Publisher: EBURY PRESS (RAND)
Pages no: 320
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...