The first thing I did after finishing Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation was to go into the kitchen, slice up some potatoes, and make my own french fries. I sprinkled salt over them, omitted the ketchup, and ate the fries one by one, slowly, savoringly. At the same time, I tried to recall my distant […]
Chitrita Banerji
Chitrita Banerji is the author of Life and Food in Bengal; Bengali Cooking: Seasons and Festivals and Feeding the Gods: Memories of Food and Culture in Bengal.