Book description
Rohan Candappa, author of bestselling humour books such as the
Little Book of Stress and The Curious Incident of
the Weapons of Mass Destruction, is the son of a Sri Lankan
father and Burmese mother. He grew up small and round in South London,
riding his chopper bike and supporting Leeds United. But every day his
mother would conjur delicious meals out of thin air. His father cooked
too, with fiery flavourings, black curries and green coriander
chutneys. Their home became the focus for family gatherings and feasts
of such delicacy and exoticism that you'd never have known Norwood lay
outside the window.
Yet somewhere in his twenties Rohan forgot his culinary heritage and
it wasn't until he was bringing up his own young family that he began
to think more about his identity as a second generation immigrant and
the binding, identifying power of the family meal caught his imagination.
And so he began this beautifully written, funny, poignant memoir of
his heritage and his home. Of curry leaves and curried chips. Hot
chillis and hot dogs. Pataks and Heinz. About the past and the present
- and the place where time should cease to matter... the family kitchen.
Rohan lives with his wife and two children in North London. After a
career in advertising he is now a full-time writer.
