Madhushree Ghosh on The Many Stories Food Holds

This week’s episode is far reaching in scope—touching history, cultural inheritance and influence, food as a bridge, and what stories we have the authority to tell. Guest Madhushree Ghosh brings us into her inspiration for her newest book, Safar, which is the surprising history of Punjabi men who married Mexican women in California starting in the 1920s, and the reverberations those unions had on the people, the place, and the food over the next century. It’s a fascinating and multilayered interview that reminds us that there are so many ways into a story, and many stories waiting to be told. Madhushree Ghosh is the author of the award-winning culinary memoir, Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family. Her new book, Safar: Finding Home, History, and Culture through Punjabi Food in the American West, explores Punjabi migration to the American West transforming food, travel, prayer, and community. Madhushree’s Pushcart-nominated work on food, social justice, and immigration has been published in the Best American Essays in Food Writing, The New York Times, Vogue India, Washington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poets and Writers, LA Times and others. She also runs the popular global literary salon & supper club, KhabaarCo. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.