The Calcutta Cookbook

by Bunny Gupta, Minakshie DasGupta, Jaya Chaliha, et al.

The Calcutta Cookbook is much more than a cookery book it is a culinary chronicle of travelers and traders who built the city that Job Charnock founded. Calcutta's chronicle began on a hot, wet August afternoon in 1690 when a hungry Charnock climbed off his ship on to the steps of a muddy ghat. The river was Hooghly and the place Sutanati... The story of Calcutta is told by three food lovers the late gourmet chef and author of Bangla Ranna, Minakshi...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140469729
• ISBN13: 9780140469721
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Penguin Books India
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"