Atlanta-based author Nandita Godbole celebrates her Indian heritage and family recipes in her new biographical fiction,”Ten Thousand Tongues: Secrets of a Layered Kitchen.” It also comes with a companion cookbook.
The stories pay homage to the eight female matriarchs in her family that inspired her culinary journey. Each of the sections in the cookbook are recipes from each of the matriarchs, spanning five generations.
“I began by talking with my father and I wanted to understand my own heritage in relation to his mother, who was born into the Jewish faith before she converted [to Hinduism]. The more I talked to him, I got the sense that there was a lot of hurt that had carried forward because people had misunderstood them as a family. Very shortly after the conversation with my dad, he had passed away,” she said.
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