About the
Author
Chitrita Banerji
grew up in Calcutta, received her master’s degree from Harvard University, and
now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She spent many years as a journalist,
editor and translator. Her other books include Bengali Cooking:
Seasons and Festivals and Life and Food in Bengal.
Her articles, columns and short fiction have appeared
in Granta, Gourmet, Gastronomica, Boston Globe, American Prospect, Calyx, Petits Propos Culinaires,
Phoenix, and Boston
Magazine, and
she has received awards for her papers at the Oxford Symposium of Food and
Cookery.
Contents
THE
HOUR OF THE GODDESS |
1 |
FEEDING
THE GODS |
11 |
PATOLER
MA |
27 |
A DOSE
OF BITTERS |
35 |
FOOD
AND DIFFERENCE |
47 |
CROSSING
THE BORDERS |
59 |
THE
BONTI OF BENGAL |
75 |
FIVE
LITTLE SEEDS |
85 |
WHAT
BENGALI WIDOWS CANNOT EAT |
95 |
HOW
BENGAL DISCOVERED CHHANA |
105 |
FOOD,
RITUAL AND ART IN BENGAL |
125 |
REFERENCES |
143 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
145 |
About the
Author
Chitrita Banerji
grew up in Calcutta, received her master’s degree from Harvard University, and
now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She spent many years as a journalist,
editor and translator. Her other books include Bengali Cooking:
Seasons and Festivals and Life and Food in Bengal.
Her articles, columns and short fiction have appeared
in Granta, Gourmet, Gastronomica, Boston Globe, American Prospect, Calyx, Petits Propos Culinaires,
Phoenix, and Boston
Magazine, and
she has received awards for her papers at the Oxford Symposium of Food and
Cookery.
Contents
THE
HOUR OF THE GODDESS |
1 |
FEEDING
THE GODS |
11 |
PATOLER
MA |
27 |
A DOSE
OF BITTERS |
35 |
FOOD
AND DIFFERENCE |
47 |
CROSSING
THE BORDERS |
59 |
THE
BONTI OF BENGAL |
75 |
FIVE
LITTLE SEEDS |
85 |
WHAT
BENGALI WIDOWS CANNOT EAT |
95 |
HOW
BENGAL DISCOVERED CHHANA |
105 |
FOOD,
RITUAL AND ART IN BENGAL |
125 |
REFERENCES |
143 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS |
145 |