Biting Through the Skin - An Indian Kitchen in America's Heartland

Informationen zum Autor Born in Thailand to Indian parents! Nina Mukerjee Furstenau grew up in Kansas! served in the Peace Corps in Tunisia! and founded a publishing company with her husband. Now a journalist and food writer based in Fayette! Missouri! she also teaches journalism at the University of Missouri. Klappentext At once a traveller'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. Nina Mukerjee Furstenau's parents brought her from Bengal in northern India to the small town of Pittsburg! Kansas! in 1964. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Nina Mukerjee Furstenau
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2013
• EAN: 9781609381851
• ISBN: 978-1-60938-185-1
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Guides > Food & drink; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Biografien: allgemein, Biography / Autobiography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Culinary