Those Delicious Letters
Those Delicious Letters book cover

Those Delicious Letters

Paperback – December 15, 2020

Price
$10.43
Format
Paperback
Pages
264
Publisher
HarperCollins India
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-9353574598
Dimensions
5 x 0.7 x 7.7 inches
Weight
6.4 ounces

Description

Sandeepa Mukherjee Datta is Bong Mom, the nom de plume behind the very popular blog 'Bong Mom's Cookbook'. She has been entertaining her readers with food and stories for over ten years and is the go-to source for Bengali cooking on the web. An engineer by profession, she lives with her family in New Jersey, USA.

Features & Highlights

  • SOON TO BE A MAJOR WEB SERIES
  • From the bestselling author of Bong Mom's Cookbook, comes a novel about food, family and loveSoon after her fortieth birthday, Shubha starts receiving letters with traditional Bengali recipes from a mysterious lady in Calcutta claiming to be her grandmother. Never one for cooking, but drawn by the nostalgia and lured into the delicious world of forgotten food, Shubha starts experimenting with the recipes. The dishes are an instant hit with everyone she knows -- everyone except Sameer, her very busy husband.As Shubha tries to find the mysterious writer and her own life begins to unravel, the notes from a bygone era give her courage to take a second chance at life.Torn between the taste of success that the letters bring her, and the need to save her marriage, Shubha must find the perfect recipe for love.

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Timeless Recipes Blossom in an Authentic Saga Across Era & Cultures

Only if Jeffrey Archer was a Naturalist, a Master Chef, a Woman and a Bong, could anyone ever have come close.

An Indisputable reference manual of culinary classics for generations to come, this book provides veritable insight into the true spirit of Bengal. It is a golden chronicle of an era when humanity had the time to appreciate the Simple & the Genuine.

The challenges of a creative spirit striving in an entrepreneurial society is magnified at the dutiful heart of a caring mother & spouse.
While navigating ostentation of newfound success in an immigrant society and helplessness of the mundane contrasted by social media, she accentuates the wisdom of pausing to admire our fundamental connection with nature.

The story unfurls a mosaic of subtle suspense while underlining basic interpersonal needs in brilliant humor. Choice of words spell out taste better than any romantic can or any AI ever will.
Sophistication in simplicity (of prose & philosophy) helms a memorable cruise through the pages, culminating into a heartwarming ending.

While the lenses of Dominique Lapierre or Gunter Grass may be debated by some, the description of Kolkata in this book will remain a benchmark:
“A city that has food in its soul cannot be cruel to anyone.”
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Keep the faith !!!

The author, very intricately reminded us of life and in spite of ups and downs, it is the “faith” that drives us, bonds us generationally. Very eloquently it describes the fundamentals of joy, anxiousness, problems and binds it with food. Loved reading it.