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Indian Takeaway: One Man's Attempt To Cook His Way Home (2010)

by Hardeep Singh Kohli(Favorite Author)

2.94 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1847670903 (ISBN13: 9781847670908)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Canongate Books

review 1: In the first few pages, Kohli rambles so much that I could not decide where it was leading. Then, he throws a stupid zinger of cooking British food for Indians he meet while travelling. He offers no explanation of his desire. He is torturous in Kovalam. In Mallampuram, he caught my heart and was a much more bearable thereon. You really have to give it to Kohli for the way he describes his cooking. It is really detailed and connectable. The travel part, is skimpy at it is best. If you have read other foreigner-writes-about-India, skip this book. If you are really set on understanding an NRI's take on his ancestor's land, I would recommend movies from Gurinder Chhadha instead.The cover has a few snippets from reviews and they talk about how humorous the book is. I did not ... morefind Kohli's stale jokes humorous. He really over does things like his fathers' refrain, "Sign those documents son" was easily predictable before its each instance. The only humorous part was Victoria's Sponge or Victoria's punj and this I understood, because I speak Punjabi; it would probably be lost on other readers.Lastly, his writing is quintessentially British. You know, how they take a million words to say something that could have been conveyed in just a few. It is amusing the first few times but seriously bugging afterwards and I found skimming through 4-5 line when Kohli entered his British mode.
review 2: I was expecting it to be funny, but it turned out to be more introspective -- Hardeep's serious side, as it were. He is a Sikh man born and raised in the UK, but everyone always wanted to know where he was from... originally. This book is about him going to India and trying to 'find himself', as it were, and cooking British food for the locals along the way.To expand, I think those who have lived in different countries and perhaps have been judged based on their appearance AND also love to eat could really relate to this. less

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