Settler's Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food
- ISBN-10
- 1437977782
- ISBN-13
- 9781437977783
- Pages
- 439
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-01
- Author
- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Description
Yasmin's forebears left India in the 19th century, crossing the seas to East Africa. There they flourished under British rule and thereafter in independent Uganda. In 1972, Asians were expelled from Uganda by Idi Amin. Yasmin moved to the UK, her new homeland. The food she cooks now combines the traditions and flavors of her family's hybrid culinary heritage -- a mouth-watering collection of recipes handed down over generations, modified and improved along the way. This cookbook traces the long journey of the East African Indians through famine, persecution and upheaval. Warm and provocative, this is a cultural and culinary history of a people, full of recipes and stories shared, which continue to feed and inspire friends and families to this day.
