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The Resource Climbing the mango trees : a memoir of a childhood in India, by Madhur Jaffrey

Climbing the mango trees : a memoir of a childhood in India, by Madhur Jaffrey

Label
Climbing the mango trees : a memoir of a childhood in India
Title
Climbing the mango trees
Title remainder
a memoir of a childhood in India
Statement of responsibility
by Madhur Jaffrey
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
Madhur Jaffrey's enchanting memoir of her childhood in India. Her description of growing up a in a very large, wealthy family (half a train was booked to transport the family from Delhi to the mountains for the summer) conjures up the spirit of a long lost age. Whether climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard, armed with a mixture of salt, pepper, red chillies and roasted cumin, or enjoying picnics in the foothills of the Himalayas, reached by foot, rickshaw, palanquin or horse, where meatballs stuffed with sultanas and mint leaves, cauliflowers flavoured with ginger and coriander, and spiced pooris with hot green mango pickle
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
VGLEN
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Jaffrey, Madhur
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
Index
no index present
LC call number
TX649.J34
LC item number
.A3 2006
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Jaffrey, Madhur
  • Jaffrey, Madhur
  • Jaffrey, Madhur
  • Jaffrey, Madhur
  • Cooks
  • Women food writers
  • Cooks
  • Cooking, Indic
  • Cooks
  • Women cooks
  • India
  • India
Target audience
general
Label
Climbing the mango trees : a memoir of a childhood in India, by Madhur Jaffrey
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
Originally published: 2005
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000040406025
Dimensions
20 cm.
Edition
1st American ed.
Extent
xiv, 303 p.
Form of item
regular print reproduction
Isbn
9780091908935
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
ill., ports
System control number
(OCoLC)224984577
Label
Climbing the mango trees : a memoir of a childhood in India, by Madhur Jaffrey
Publication
Copyright
Note
Originally published: 2005
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000040406025
Dimensions
20 cm.
Edition
1st American ed.
Extent
xiv, 303 p.
Form of item
regular print reproduction
Isbn
9780091908935
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
ill., ports
System control number
(OCoLC)224984577

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