false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168543276m/34242.jpg 34242 8 <p>Today&#8217;s most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood in Delhi in an age and a society that has since disappeared.<br><br>Madhur (meaning &#8220;sweet as honey&#8221;) Jaffrey grew up in a large family compound where her grandfather often presided over dinners at which forty or more members of his extended family would savor together the wonderfully flavorful dishes that were forever imprinted on Madhur&#8217;s palate.<br><br>Climbing mango trees in the orchard, armed with a mixture of salt, pepper, ground chilies, and roasted cumin; picnicking in the Himalayan foothills on meatballs stuffed with raisins and mint and tucked into freshly fried <i>poori</i>s; sampling the heady flavors in the lunch boxes of Muslim friends; sneaking tastes of exotic street fare&#8212;these are the food memories Madhur Jaffrey draws on as a way of telling her story. Independent, sensitive, and ever curious, as a young girl she loved uncovering her family&#8217;s many-layered history, and she was deeply affected by their personal trials and by the devastating consequences of Partition, which ripped their world apart.<br><br><i>Climbing the Mango Trees</i> is both an enormously appealing account of an unusual childhood and a testament to the power of food to evoke memory. And, at the end, this treasure of a book contains a secret ingredient&#8212;more than thirty family recipes recovered from Madhur&#8217;s childhood, which she now shares with us.</p> 1013177 2005 Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India total:310|5:48|4:110|3:122|2:25|1:5| 310 1101 594 86 3 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 09:16:12 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 07 11:53:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 08:06:11 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 00:00:31 -0800 2008 Madhur Jaffrey cooking fans, this is an interesting read, the story of her early life in India. The descriptions of food are especially good, of course, as well as the look at daily life in a well-to-do family. There are some tempting family recipes included.

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