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’Just what we needed. The first comprehensive history of dining inMumbai/Bombay, India’s food capital.’-Vir SanghviFrom the Kolis, who have been fishing in the city’s waters since much beforerecorded history, and early settlers such as the Pathare Prabhus, to the peoplewho poured into the developing city in the centuries of British rule and those,like the Sindhis, who found a safe haven here during Partition, this is the firsttruly comprehensive food history of India’s great metropolis.The city’s nativists like to champion what they consider ’original cultures’.But originality resides in the Mumbaikar’s inventive impulse, a qualityencapsulated in the nativist’s favourite food, the vada pao: Were it not forthe Portuguese, who transported the potato or batata to Bombay, and taughtthe Goans the art of baking bread, or pao, the vada pao may never have beenconceived!Celebrating this rich diversity of cultures and cuisines, this book coversmigrants from the Kanara coast, who gave the city the Udipi restaurant;Parsis, who introduced diners to Persian and Gujarati-inflected dishes,and their Irani brethren, who served this food in their iconic cafes; and themyriad Muslim communities that made the old neighbourhood of BhendiBazaar a gastronome’s place of pilgrimage.Bombay Duck is a rigorously researched, delightfully anecdotal history of foodin Bombay/Mumbai that is as colourful and cosmopolitan as the city itself.
