“Khabaar:
An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family”
What they are saying about Khabaar
Ms. Magazine ‘Most Anticipated Read for the Rest of Us in 2022’
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Rishi Reddi in LA Review of Books called KHABAAR, “Equal parts memoir, political commentary, and cookbook, …(KHABAAR) braids food and memory and loss into a single compelling strand.”
Neelanjana Banerjee at The Rumpus says, “Her essays bind together the journey of a diasporic Indian student trying to find themselves in America, the bafflement of loss—of both parents and her marriage—of global politics and corporate maneuvering, while ladling out ideas of nourishment, flavor, and how what we eat shapes who we think we are.”
Lopa Basu in India Currents says, “Food offers a vision of not just one woman’s immigrant journey, or that of her extended family’s—it juxtaposes individual with national trauma.”
Sunday Mid-Day hails KHABAAR as “A new book blends a memoir with the larger narrative on how food from the region has travelled through immigration, migration, and indenture.”
Layla Khoury-Hanold in Hippocampus Magazine notes, “Khabaar is for readers looking for a deeper understanding of how food serves as a platform to explore other topics, such as the immigrant experience, social justice, and self-discovery, for food lovers who relish descriptive prose and armchair travel, and for anyone who devours thoughtful, reflective writing set against a precise style of storytelling.”
NRI Pulse: “Extraordinary culinary memoir is simmered to perfection.”
From University of Iowa Press
Khabaar is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture. Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country?
Coming Soon by Madhushree:
Madhushree Ghosh’s upcoming food and travel narrative memoir,
“SAFAR: Finding Home, History and Culture through Punjabi Food” in the American West is available for pre-order.
“Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food in the American West “
“Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food in the American West”
is the journey of South Asian refugees, immigrants and their children—in particular, Sikhs, Jats and Muslims—who moved to the southwestern states of America over centuries as farmers, truck drivers, restaurant owners and dhaba/diner stall cooks. An expedition in search of the asli or real Punjabi food, Madhushree Ghosh explores how their food traveled from British India pre-partition (1947) to now, covering the different waves of Punjabi immigration to the southwest through the years as a result of war, fear, deprivation or for a better future.
She includes her own immigrant journey as a Bengali daughter of refugees and an immigrant to the United States in 1993, bringing in stories of displacement, the true meaning of community through food, and identity.
Literary Representation
Dana Newman Literary Agency
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Los Angeles, Los Angeles County 90067, USA