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• ISBN: 140004295X
• ISBN: 9781400042951
• Physical Description: print
  x, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
• Edition: First American edition
• Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2006.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Sweet as Honey? -- Winter in Delhi: The Season of Weddings -- Caterer as Magician -- Lessons in Taste -- Delhi-Old and New -- Sir Edwin Lutyens and the House That Never Was -- Grandfather, "Babaji" -- Number 7 -- Lady in White -- Kite -- Summer Lunch -- Red Book -- Story of My Ancestors -- Muslim Influence -- British Rule -- Record-Keeper -- Mutiny of 1857 -- Reward -- Freedom of Kanpur -- My Mother and Father -- A Fairy-Tale Marriage -- A Desire to Excel -- Choosing a School -- A Milky Nation: The Milk Beauty Secret and Milk for Breakfast -- Our Morning Rituals -- Magic Garden -- Summer Holiday -- Baby Sister -- Starting School and Learning English -- Toffee Man -- Quest for Barley Sugar -- My Perfect Sisters -- Fasting for My Father -- Lighting Up for Diwali -- An Opulent Dining Room -- Chewing the Bones -- Bookworms -- A Role Model -- My Caring, Reticent Sister -- Useful Club -- Death of a Cousin -- Divided Loyalties -- Preparing for War -- Film Buffs -- Nazi Connection -- Wolfie and the Gray Horse -- End of the Kanpur Idyll -- Spellbinding Shibbudada -- Two Tragic Marriages -- Sadness and a Conspiracy of Silence -- My Gang -- Fishing, Shooting, and Swimming -- Watermelon Fields -- Ear-Piercing Antiseptic -- Drawing Room -- Winter Evenings: Family, Friends, Lemonade, Nuts, and Pakoris -- Dining at the Long Tables -- Family Picnics in Delhi -- Art of Getting Thirty People into Two Cars -- Cinema Trips -- Story Time -- Summer Holidays in the Hills -- Great Exodus -- Grandmother's Magic Potion -- Mountain Picnics -- Taste of Ecstasy -- A New School -- Classmates in Burqas -- Hindi or Urdu: A Dreadful Choice -- A Lethally Sharp Pencil -- Shibbudada's Favorites -- Teatime Tension -- A Dream House in Daurala -- Sugarcane Fields -- Sweets Galore in the Sugar Factory -- Visiting the Old City -- Lane of Fried Breads -- Monsoon Mushrooms -- Learning to Swim and Dance -- A Haven for Musicians -- Temple Dancers and Tap-Dancers -- Dressing as Milkmaids -- An Unhappy Teenager -- Drama of the Monsoons -- Shibbudada's Quiet Cruelty -- Spring Festival of Colors -- Chicken Pox -- Soup-Toast and Sewing -- A Fancy-Dress Party -- Learning to Fly -- School Days in Summer -- Mrs. McKelvie -- Discovering Drama -- Fearless Amina -- Art Appreciation -- Sisters Return -- A Taste of the Future -- Mother's Shawls -- Kamal's Illness -- Muslim Twins -- Sudha's Vegetarian Delights -- Punjabi Promila -- Our Shared Lunchtime Feasts -- Contacting the Spirit World -- Icy Hands of Partition -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Spinning for India -- Independence Day and the Bloody Aftermath -- Punjabi Influences -- Food with New Attitude -- Bazaar and Tandoori Foods -- A Taste of Spam -- Sunday Lunchtimes -- Looming Banyan Tree -- New School Friends and Fresh Tastes -- Learning to Love Hindi -- Two Types of Indians -- Hated Cookery Lessons -- Divine Potatoes -- Exam Season -- Brain Food -- Honey Seller -- Sweetening the Mouth -- First Jobs and First Loves -- Ballroom Dancing -- Dressing for the Dinner Dance -- Future Planning -- Radio Station -- Last Large Picnic -- Wildflower Hall and an Encounter with the Police -- Kamal's Journey -- Shibbudada Interferes Again -- Cookery Exam -- A Joint Family in New York -- Grandfather's Decline -- A Riverside Cremation -- Kamal's Return -- A Gift of Coca-Cola -- Sailing to a New Life -- Mingling the Flavors of the Past and the Future -- Family Recipes 245.

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