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Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing Up Between Cultures.
A Grandmother’s Secrets
Burnt Bread and Chutney: A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Girl, by Carmit Delman, Ballantine Books, $22.95; Random House, $13.95
Carmit Delman’s first encounter with a hot dog was fraught.
Carmit delman biography of william hill
Sighting at a neighbor’s picnic in her suburban American town the “piles of food [that] seemed to glisten before me with mayonnaise and meatiness,” she crept through the fence and was given one of her own. She returned with it to her kitchen, where her Indian Jewish grandmother, Nana-bai, “[using] the spatula…poked suspiciously at the hot dog in question,” declared that it was “not real food,” and went back to cooking her curry.
Delman, meanwhile, wondered what her grandmother could mean, imagined her hot dog “opening a thousand eyes,” and then wolfed it down anyway.
And so the rituals of cultural isolation, assimilation, deference and defiance are set out in Delman’s modest but engaging comi