Monsoon Diary

In this creative and intimate work Narayan matches her considerable vegetarian cooking talents with delicious accounts of her childhood in South India her college days in America her arranged marriage and visits from her parents and in-laws to her home in New York City. In doing so she illuminates Indian customs while commenting on American culture from the vantage point of the sympathetic outsider. Review 'Narayan's sparkling insightful narritave makes for a delightful cultural and culinary read' --Publisher's Weekly About the Author Shoba Narayan has written for Travel & Leisure Gourmet Saveur Food & Wine Newsweek House Beautiful The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. She is a regular guest on NPR's All Things Considered Weekend and a recipient of the M.F.K. Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing given by the James Beard Foundation. Narayan graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism which awarded her a Pulitzer Fellowship. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.