The Hour of the Goddess (Memories of Women, Food and Ritual in Bengal)
Book Specification
| Item Code: | NAI120 |
| Author: | Chitrita Banerji |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd. |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2006 |
| ISBN: | 9780144001422 |
| Pages: | 154 (10 B/W Illustrations) |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.0 inch x 5.0 inch |
| Weight | 150 gm |
Book Description
About the Author
Chitrita Banerji grew up in Calcutta, received her master’s degree from Harvard University, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She spent many years as a journalist, editor and translator. Her other books include Bengali Cooking: Seasons and Festivals and Life and Food in Bengal.
Her articles, columns and short fiction have appeared in Granta, Gourmet, Gastronomica, Boston Globe, American Prospect, Calyx, Petits Propos Culinaires, Phoenix, and Boston Magazine, and she has received awards for her papers at the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery.
Contents
| THE HOUR OF THE GODDESS | 1 |
| FEEDING THE GODS | 11 |
| PATOLER MA | 27 |
| A DOSE OF BITTERS | 35 |
| FOOD AND DIFFERENCE | 47 |
| CROSSING THE BORDERS | 59 |
| THE BONTI OF BENGAL | 75 |
| FIVE LITTLE SEEDS | 85 |
| WHAT BENGALI WIDOWS CANNOT EAT | 95 |
| HOW BENGAL DISCOVERED CHHANA | 105 |
| FOOD, RITUAL AND ART IN BENGAL | 125 |
| REFERENCES | 143 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 145 |
