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Sea Salt And Spice

by Meher Mirza
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9789369895236
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers India
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 320
  • Original Price: INR 999.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 460 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History

Sea, Salt and Spice is a definitive culinary biography of Mumbai - a city shaped as much appetite as by tides and trade. Long before it became shorthand for ambition, excess and overcrowded trains, Bombay was a porous island city, its kitchens stocked by fishermen, merchants, settlers and empire.

With curiosity and flair, Meher Mirza traces this history through what was cooked, preserved, traded and eaten: from Koli hearths and Peshwa courts to Portuguese enclaves, colonial ports and the restless streets of the late twentieth century. Moving nimbly across centuries, she shows how geography, climate, gender, religion, caste and commerce worked their way into everyday meals.

Richly illustrated with maps, photographs and archival texts, Sea, Salt and Spice blends scholarship with storytelling, wit with insight. This is not a guide to what to eat or where to eat it, but a spirited biography of a city - one that finally gives Mumbai, and its food, their due.

Meher Mirza is a Mumbai-based writer and editor whose work has appeared in The Guardian, BBC Travel, CNN Travel, Saveur, Literary Hub, Condé Nast Traveller India and Roads & Kingdoms among others, and in books by Lonely Planet and Fodor's. Formerly the chief copy and features editor at BBC Good Food India and an editor at Incredible India, she writes at the intersection of food, culture and history, with a particular interest in Mumbai and the food traditions of her Parsi community.


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