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Book review: Digesting India by Zac O`Yeah

When food and literature mix….. Travel-writer Zac O`Yeah has travelled the length and breadth of India, stopping for double breakfasts,  a handful of lunches, many a bottle of stuff that ranges from grog to branded liquor at many a pub or what passes for a pub in the hinterlands, as well as several dinners, all…

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Book review: Chillies and Porridge, Writing Food, edited by Mita Kapur

   Undercooked Fare Chillies and Porridge  (Edited by Mita Kapur) has an interesting if rather  crowded jacket picture. A line-up of accomplished writers. A winner of a topic for an anthology: food.  Chillies and Porridge  should have made for  truly delicious reading. And some of it does, but only some. Janice Pariat`s reflective eulogy to a breakfast…

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