In The Guardian, Nicholas Clee reviews “Indian Takeaway: One Man’s Attempt to Cook His Way Home” by Hardeep Singh Kohli:
Hardeep Singh Kohli is a broadcaster, writer and newspaper columnist. A keen amateur cook, he was a runner-up on Celebrity Masterchef. He is also one of the 2008 Booker judges. His first book, Indian Takeaway, is a likeable but clumsy contribution to this busy CV and joins a well-worn genre – the travel memoir with a zany twist. Kohli journeys from the south of India to the north, the twist being that he attempts to cook typically British food as he goes. “Understand someone’s food and you understand them,” he reasons, and he sets out to understand himself by bringing together his Indian and British culinary heritages.
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