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UNINA9910463457603321 |
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Furstenau Nina Mukerjee <1962-> |
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Biting through the skin [[electronic resource] ] : an Indian kitchen in America's heartland / / Nina Mukerjee Furstenau |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 2013 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (189 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Bengali Americans |
Bengali Americans - Food |
Bengali Americans - Social life and customs |
Cooking, Indic |
Food habits - Kansas |
Food habits - India - Bengal |
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Kansas Biography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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. |
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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 |
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lake in their motorboat, and joined the Shriners. Her parents transferred the c |
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UNISALENTO991001359059707536 |
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Autore |
Vielliard, Françoise |
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Les origines, les legendes epiques, le roman courtois / Françoise Vielliard, Jacques Monfrin |
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Paris : Editions du CNRS, 1986 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Collana |
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Manuel bibliographique de la litterature française du Moyen Age de Robert Bossuat. Troisieme supplement (1960-1980) ; 1 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Monfrin, Jacquesauthor |
Bossuat, Robert |
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