It is also a novel about immigrant communities and their challenges. The Mistress of Spices is a novel of magic, love, heartbreak and finding happiness in unexpected places. The novel also exemplifies my belief that the world is a magical place, and that it is filled with many things that defy logical explanation. I also wanted to bring to a novel everything that I knew about poetry, (I was a poet before I became a novelist) and how images can tell a deeper truth than prosaic explanations. I wrote this book because I wanted to interweave things that I knew and loved about India with the things I was learning and thinking about in the United States, the country to which I had immigrated some years back. It seems like a long time ago that I wrote it-I now have 18 books. The Mistress of Spices is my first novel. I’m delighted that Lee and the Foodie Book Club has chosen my novel Mistress of Spices for their July selection! Thank you. Here’s a little bit about the novel: The Mistress of Spices: An Introduction by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Sit back, put your feet up and enjoy the book and the food.Ĭheck out next month’s book title on the Foodie Book Club Upcoming Reads page. July starts with a foreword by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of this month’s Foodie Book Club book - The Mistress of Spices, and a recipe using spices, this month’s ingredient, in a delicious Chicken Korma by Dina Begum.Ī big thank you to them both for supporting Foodie Book Club in helping us to grow our groups and for their amazing generosity. This has been an exciting time for Foodie Book Club and I hope you find the new look page, fun and exciting too. Welcome to the new look Foodie Book Club Recipe & Book Review Page What about leftover food? If i’m able, i hope to give ideas as to how to use up any leftovers too.Ĭooking isn’t hard, neither is baking, its all about being brave and being ok with making mistakes My mum used to say, “Waste not Want not” is that still a saying ?įor me, waste is not just about using up all the ingredients. If i buy ingredients specifically for a recipe, and i only need a small amount of the ingredients, i want to be able to use the rest up and not have to throw them away. There are many things that get under my bonnet and wiggle around, one of those is food waste. Just me, whats happening, and whatever cameras or phone i have to hand. No filters here, (although i’d love to find a filter that can take ten years worth of laugh lines away. This site is about real cooking and baking, real recipes and real mistakes. When I’m not developing recipes for others, writing guest blogs, writing my own blog, or even trying to learn how to paint, I’m usually spending time with the amazing Mr G (my husband) or with my lovely daughter or my lovely son (very proud mum).
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