They didn’t have my fire
Bee Wilson: The New Food Memoirists, 25 June 2009
The Settler’s Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food
by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.
Portobello, 439 pp., £20, March 2009,978 1 84627 083 3 Show More
by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown.
Portobello, 439 pp., £20, March 2009,
“... of potatoes that might have been mashed last year.’ In The Settler’s Cookbook the journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown describes her life from the sour mangoes dipped in chilli powder she eats as a child in Uganda in the 1950s to the potato parathas she cooks to soothe marital disputes in 21st-century London. But she is different from the others in that ... ”