Monsoon Diary: Reveries and Recipes from South India book-new-arrivals-2024-11-02 After a harrowing trip upriver

After a harrowing trip upriver to a remote settlement in the Pantanal

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which determined New York’s future

Monsoon Diary: Reveries and Recipes from South India book-new-arrivals-2024-11-02 After a harrowing trip upriverMONSOON DIARY weaves a fascinating food narrative that combines authentic vegetarian recipes from South India with tales from Shoba Narayan's life, stories of her delightfully eccentric family, and reflections on Indian culture. Shoba recounts her childhood in South India, a portrait of small town life richly populated by characters like the flower woman who brings jasmine for the gods, the milkman who names his cows after his wives, and the iron man