Madhushree Ghosh’s latest 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”

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.

Praise for Safar:

“Safar beautifully shows how generations of Sikhs—and Sikh women in particular—have made their homes in North America and have stayed connected to their ancestors and to their homelands in Punjab through food, culture, tradition, all while building an inclusive community.” —Simran Jeet Singh, author of The Light We Give 

“Khabaar:
An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family”

Non-fiction: Narrative

Pushcart-nominated essayist Madhushree Ghosh’s “Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family”, expanding on a Longreads essay that received a Notable Mention in The Best American Food Writing 2020, weaving the stories of her refugee Bengali parents, her own move from India to America, and innovative South Asian chefs, and how they used food to recreate their worlds in a new place and maintain connections with their families and cultures. University of Iowa Press, publication date April 4, 2022, by Dana Newman at Dana Newman Literary (world English).