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Ginger And Ganesh: Adventures In Indian Cooking, Culture, And Love (2010)

by Nani Power(Favorite Author)

2.72 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1582435448 (ISBN13: 9781582435442)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Counterpoint

review 1: The cover and the title made me pick this book up. While I liked the fact that a westerner truly skimmed on the surface of the finer points of the complex Indian culture, many things were left wanting. The recipes were so so, the characters did not have much depth and the romance was trite and sentimental at its best.Recommended only if you want to get a glimpse of India and her cooking. Not for those of us who are steeped and simmered in her.
review 2: I wanted to like this book more but I found the writing to be disjointed and her execution of the subject matter mostly offensive. I did really enjoy the recipes so I gave the book 3 stars. I wish the book had more on how she made the food part of her life and spiritual experience. I did enjoy the tidbits when s... morehe talked about making food with love and mindfulness. I hated her long dramas about her lover she contradicted herself saying it was real love her friends just can't understand. Then she would go back and say its just sex and wants it to be over. Then Nope she really loves him more than she has ever loved before. nope they have a creepy stalker relationship and are super codependent and she's just addicted to him. She said she is embarrassed to be with him but that she is absolutely not a cougar. I found all of that to be trying and completely against everything she said about why she left her fiancee in the first few chapters. She said she wanted to put her sons first and needed her freedom to write. Be an independent women who loves her freedom. Anyone who calls 126 times during a fight then forces there way to your house uninvited you should defiantly not continue to sleep with. I tried to not be to judge but I didn't succeed. I felt she was setting a horrible example for her teenage sons. I wished she would just go back to talking about the food or culture, spirituality or how she integrated it into her own life. She made a weird almost harsh comment about how vegans think cows are abused getting milk and how you will not find vegan Indians. She made it seem like those silly vegans make up cows suffering. I really wish she had not made that comment at all or that she talked about how to buy milk here in the United States that is safer for the consumer and less cruel for the cows. Over all I really didn't like the book it had promise but the execution was horrible. less

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