A Taste of My Life

Food carries memory in A Taste of My Life, Chitrita Banerji's memoir of Kolkata kitchens, migration and the meals that mark both. Banerji, known for her writing on Bengali cuisine and culinary history, moves between childhood dishes and the improvised cooking of years spent in the United States, setting recipes alongside reflection. The book is as much about displacement as about ingredients: what a dish preserves, what it loses in translation, and why certain flavours summon a house that no longer exists. The prose is unhurried and precise throughout. For the curious reader: • Memoir and food writing combined, with recipes woven through • Draws on Bengali culinary tradition and the author's years abroad • Concerned with migration, memory and family as much as with cooking • Issued by Pan MacMillan through its Picador list Well suited to readers of food writing, memoir and Bengali cultural history, available at Boipoka.