Asian Studies Cookbook Analysis

Neha Raheja
ANS 379
September 17, 2012
Cookbook Analysis
Indian Cookery by Savitri Chowdhary, A. Deutsch: 1954
The Bombay Palace Cookbook by Stendahl, Dodd and Mead: 1985
How to Make a case Cuisine: Cookbooks in Contemporary India by Arjun Appadurai,
Cambridge University Press: 1988


At surface, cookbooks seem to contain sets of instructions and lists of ingredients that make up an variety show of recipes, but there is more than that we can learn from these books some other than the art of how to prepare various types of dishes. If we take into serious comity the author, his or her language, and the time and context of publishing, cookbooks can tell us a lot about notions of authenticity, cultural stereotypes, and culinary nationalism. In this paper, I seek to compare two Indian cookbooks, Indian Cooking by Savitri Chowdhary and The Bombay Palace Cookbook by Stendahl. The condition was published in 1954, making it one of the earliest Indian cookery books, and the latter was published in 1985. Both cookbooks deal to contain recipes for creating authentic Indian (mostly Mughlai and Punjabi) dishes that are adapted for the more modern and Western kitchen.



My paper begins with brief overviews of each cookbook and continues with analysis of their respective content and stylistic forms.
Originally a high-school teacher in Punjab, Savitri Chowdhary arrived in Britain in 1932 to join her save who was already settled there as a doctor. Upon arrival, she notice that her husband had assimilated quite well into the English culture and lifestyle, and he urged her to do the same. Although she shed her saris for dresses and cut her hair short, she never gave up her desire to and interest in cooking traditional Punjabi food. publishing a traditional cookbook for a modern sense of hearing might have been a way for her to h ageing onto her old culture, while embracing a new culture as well.
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