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CurryEating, Reading, and Race

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No two curries are the same. ThisCurryasks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do. Curry is a dish that doesn't quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn't properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations.By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own background, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. With the sardonic wit of Gita Mehta'sKarma Colaand the refined, obsessive palette of Bill Buford'sHeat, Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavour calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters. Following in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie'sImaginary Homelands,Currycracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically Indian diasporic experience.

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9781770565234

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