Praise for A Taste of My Life

'Chitrita Banerji is an absolute master of the difficult art of writing autobiographically about food; she has very few equals in this field' Amitav Ghosh

‘A book of complex flavours: by turns sad and joyous,

It leaves you licking your fingers and hungry for more’ Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

'Can anyone "taste" someone else's life? It is difficult enough to recollect aromas and flavours – ephemeral sensual delights – savoured by oneself. But, with the help of a gifted illusionist, one can indeed travel back in time and across geographies to share the dreams, sorrows and joys of someone else. This is what Chitrita Banerji has accomplished in her delightful anthology of "remembrances of things past"' Pushpesh Pant

Praise for Chitrita Banerji

‘[Banerji is] a wonderful food writer’ Gastronomica

‘Chitrita Banerji is one of those rare writers who can tease the meaning out of ordinary foods without ever seeming trivial, pretentious or self-indulgent ... [She] peels back the husk of triviality to reveal the history, culture, and emotional ballast that can reside in even the most everyday dish’ Gourmet's Choptalk

‘One of the most evocative of Indian food writers, blending an exact understanding of techniques with an abiding curiosity about the many human stories behind the art of food’ India Today

Chitrita Banerji is a Bengali-American writer who examines the relationships between memory, history, culture, religion, and food in her works. She is the author of several books on Indian food and culture, the latest being Eating India: An Odyssey into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices. Time Out, London, listed it among the best new food books of 2008. Her work has been included in Best American Travel Writing 2006. Her other work include Mirror City, a novel, and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu which is her first biography. She is a member of the board of the Culinary Historians of Boston. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.