Description
As a girl and a young woman, Nina traveled to her ancestral India as well as to college and to Peace Corps service in Tunisia. Through her journeys and her marriage to an American man whose grandparents hailed from Germany and Sweden, she learned that her family was not alone in being a small pocket of culture sheltered from the larger world. Biting through the Skin shows how we maintain our differences as well as how we come together through what and how we cook and eat. In mourning the partial loss of her heritage, the author finds that, ultimately, heritage always finds other ways of coming to meet us. In effect, it can be reduced to a 4 x 6-inch recipe card, something that can fit into a shirt pocket. It's on just such tiny details of life that belonging rests.
In this book, the author shares her shirt-pocket recipes and a great deal more, inviting readers to join her on her journey toward herself and toward a vital sense of food as culture and the mortar of community.
About the Author
Born in Thailand to Indian parents, Nina Mukerjee Furstenau grew up in Kansas, USA, 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, USA, she also teaches journalism at the University of Missouri.
Book Information
ISBN 9781609381851
Author Nina Mukerjee Furstenau
Format Paperback
Page Count 192
Imprint University of Iowa Press
Publisher University of Iowa Press
Weight(grams) 312g