{"product_id":"smoke-rice-water-recipes-and-stories-from-a-bengali-home","title":"Smoke, Rice, Water: Recipes and Stories from a Bengali Home","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor Kishwar Chowdhury, Bengali food cannot be separated from the people, places, and histories that produced it. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSmoke, Rice, Water\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e brings 100 recipes from this vast and culinarily underrepresented region into her home kitchen in Melbourne, combining recipes with the stories and traditions that give them context. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe book begins with a history of Bengal before presenting a cuisine shaped by season, geography, migration, and centuries of cultural exchange. Recipes range from street snacks and Mughal court dishes to fish curries, green mango dal, vegetable dishes, and the celebrated sweets of Bengal, with traditional techniques made accessible to the home cook. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChowdhury is a second-generation migrant who grew up in Australia in a Bengladeshi family, and the book is also concerned with what happens to food traditions when they travel. Her parents grew Bengali vegetables that were difficult to find locally, while the family table became a place for preserving connections to a country thousands of miles away. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA cookbook and also a record of cultural inheritance, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSmoke, Rice, Water\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e presents Bengali cooking as a living cuisine instead of something fixed in the past. Chowdhury offers both the recipes and the context needed to understand a food culture shared by hundreds of millions of people. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardcover. Color photographs throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HGUS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41723353727109,"sku":"Kishwar Chowdhury","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0297\/5046\/0549\/files\/ChowdhurySmokeRiceWaterCover.jpg?v=1788776629","url":"https:\/\/www.kitchenartsandletters.com\/products\/smoke-rice-water-recipes-and-stories-from-a-bengali-home","provider":"Kitchen Arts \u0026 Letters","version":"1.0","type":"link"}