The Recipe Keeper

di Rani Iyer (Autore)

The Sattvic Method Company, 2026

Bharati is a celebrity chef with a television kitchen that gleams and a real kitchen with a crack in the corner tile. Three years ago, her son Vikram died on a black-ice highway in New Jersey. She was nineteen when he was born. He was nineteen when he died. She packed eight suitcases, flew back to Mumbai, resurrected herself on a cooking show, and never once made his favorite dishes. But in seventeen notebooks hidden in her kitchen, she has been writing the menu for his wedding. Rose petal chicken, because he loved gulab jamun. Palak paneer with less jaggery, because he was right and she was stubborn. Mango kulfi, because it was his favorite. A feast for a day that will never come, cooked in the only language of love she has ever known. When an unplanned breakdown on live television turns into the most honest thing Indian TV has seen in years, Bharati discovers she is not alone. Thousands of people are making the same impossible offerings — birthday cakes for stillborn daughters, dinners for dead husbands, food left on beaches for drowned brothers. A litany of love with nowhere to go. The Recipe Keeper is a story about grief as devotion. About the kitchen as sacred space. About what a mother does when cooking is the only prayer she knows. For readers of Anita Desai and Samin Nosrat. For every person who has ever set a place for someone who will not come.

• Autore: Rani Iyer
• Anno edizione: 2026
• Editore: The Sattvic Method Company
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9781967672165