Too Specific and Too Vague
Bee Wilson: Curry House Curry, 24 March 2022
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionised Food in America
by Mayukh Sen.
Norton, 259 pp., £18.99, January,978 1 324 00451 6 Show More
by Mayukh Sen.
Norton, 259 pp., £18.99, January,
The Philosophy of Curry
by Sejal Sukhadwala.
British Library, 106 pp., £10, March,978 0 7123 5450 9 Show More
by Sejal Sukhadwala.
British Library, 106 pp., £10, March,
“... in 1980. Sahni is one of seven postwar American ‘immigrant women’ hailed in Taste Makers, Mayukh Sen’s perceptive group biography of some of the female restaurateurs and food writers who ‘revolutionised food in America’. As well as Sahni, Sen writes about Marcella Hazan, whose Italian cookbooks remain ... ”