Chitrita Banerji


Chitrita Banerji is a historian of Indian cuisine. She specialises in Bengali cuisine, and is also an author, novelist and translator. Her work explores the relationship between memory, history, culture, religion and food.

Biography

Banerji was born in 1947, and grew up in Calcutta. She originates from West Bengal, but spent seven years living in Bangladesh. At the age of 20 she went to Harvard University where she did her master's degree in English. She has lived in the USA since 1990. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, traveling back to India regularly.
Banerji has written for a number of publications, including the New York Times, Gastronomica, Gourmet and Granta.

Works

Banerji is the author of several books:
In 1998 and 1999 she received an "additional award" in the Sophie Coe awards for writings on food history.