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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961193003321

Autore

Furstenau Nina Mukerjee <1962->

Titolo

Biting through the skin : an Indian kitchen in America's heartland / / Nina Mukerjee Furstenau

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2013

ISBN

9781609382087

1609382080

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (189 p.)

Disciplina

394.1/2095414

Soggetti

Bengali Americans

Bengali Americans - Food

Bengali Americans - Social life and customs

Cooking, Indic

Food habits - Kansas

Food habits - India - Bengal

Kansas Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Transformation -- Two brides -- Little India -- Journey -- Table grace -- Small things satisfied -- Indian breads -- Grand Lake menu for a guru -- An Indian kitchen in Kansas -- Attic fans and flying typewriters -- Mother tongue -- On the road with Amiya and Rani -- All our Tupperware is stained with turmeric -- Strength of a nation -- Street foods -- Six recipe cards, a wing and a prayer, circa 1984 -- Bishshwayya -- A (not so) funny thing happened on the way to Didu's house -- Pop culture India.

Sommario/riassunto

At once a traveler's tale, a memoir, and a mouthwatering cookbook, Biting through the Skin offers a first-generation immigrant's perspective on growing up in America's heartland. Author Nina Mukerjee Furstenau's parents brought her from Bengal in northern India to the small town of Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1964, decades before you could find long-grain rice or plain yogurt in American grocery stores. Embracing American culture, the Mukerjee family ate hamburgers and softserve ice cream, took a visiting guru out on the



lake in their motorboat, and joined the Shriners. Her parents transferred the c