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Chitrita Banerji is a historian of Indian cuisine. She specialises in Bengali cuisine, and is also an author, novelist and translator. Her work explores the relationship between memory, history, culture, religion and food.


Biography


Banerji was born in 1947, and grew up in Calcutta (now Kolkata). She originates from West Bengal, but spent seven years living in Bangladesh (formerly East Bengal). At the age of 20 she went to Harvard University where she did her master's degree in English.[1] She has lived in the USA since 1990. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, traveling back to India regularly.[citation needed]

Banerji has written for a number of publications, including The New York Times, Gastronomica, Gourmet and Granta.[citation needed]


Works


Banerji is the author of several books:


Awards and honours


In 1998 and 1999 she received an "additional award" in the Sophie Coe awards for writings on food history.[2]


References


  1. "Chitrita Banerji - Restaurant Features - TimeOutDubai.com". Archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
  2. "Sophie Coe Memorial Prize". Petits Propos Culinaires. Retrieved December 7, 2018.

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