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Annapurna's Bounty: Indian Food Legends Retold

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Mingling sweet, sour, and spicy notes, this inspiring retelling of diverse food legends from India, paired with delicious recipes, will feed mind, body, heart, and soul.

Annapurna, the Indian Goddess of Nourishment, presides over a rich harvest of stories reimagined for the twenty-first-century palate. Here, food manifests as ploy, bargain, symbolic communication, a bone of contention, a lesson, as it weaves through the lives of a cast of characters ― kings and commoners, witches and goddesses, gurus and bandits, refugees and travellers.

Each story is followed by a vegetarian recipe offered up by a character. Gathered from the four corners of India, there are well-known dishes like nourishing dal and irresistible mango lassi, novelties like avial and Bengali khichari, as well as a new twist on beloved foods, such as samosas with a peas and coconut filling.

Infused with humane values, expertly blending the timeless and the contemporary, the magical and the everyday, encompassing East, West, and the in-between, this fusion of fiction and food will delight and inspire.
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Editorial Reviews

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Lovers of Indian culture and cuisine will delight in the panoply of characters in these tales where food is the riddle, the salve, the forger of bonds, the wisdom, the life-and-death clincher. Aromatic and flavourful reading! Excellent recipes a happy bonus! ― Alice Zorn, author of Colours in Her Hands

Annapurna’s Bounty is ingeniously designed as a banquet for the body and the mind: each of its ten chapters offers a tale and a recipe from various eras and regions of India. Men and women, divinities, demons and animals are the heroes of these vivid and colourful stories, over which floats the heady scent of mangoes and spices. ― Frédéric Charbonneau, author of L'école de la gourmandise

Veena Gokhale is a talented fiction writer and a food lover. Annapurna’s Bounty is an irresistible blend of these two great passions, combining delightful Indian legends, freshly told, with her personally honed recipes. This is a book you will want to buy twice: one to give a good friend and another to keep. ― Marianne Ackerman, Montreal novelist and playwright

Gokhale fleshes out the archetypes in these stories in a way that feels fresh and compelling, and time and place are beautifully, vividly rendered. I could almost swear that some of these stories have an actual aroma. When I came across the recipe for dal, I was inspired to head to the kitchen and make it.

― Anita Anand, author of A Convergence of Solitudes

There is a golden vein of poetry that flavours food lore, and Veena Gokhale has mined it well. Gokhale has served up a new oral tradition: a book fit to be consumed voraciously by mind and by mouth. These ancient tales of feast and famine and fire and flood have been skillfully reworked into a tapestry that weaves myth with menu. It deserves a permanent place at our dinner table.

― Gavin Barrett, Toronto poet, author of Understan, founder of Tartan Turban Secret Readings

From goddesses to gurus and samosas to curries, this volume is a collection of retellings complemented by vegetarian recipes using the rich legends and ingredients of India. Veena Gokhale feeds us mind, body and soul with this wise and delicious book. ― Ms. Magazine

About the Author

Veena Gokhale, an immigrant shape shifter, has worked as a journalist, teacher, literary curator, and in the non-profit sector. She has authored Bombay Wali and Other Stories and Land for Fatimah. Having lived in ten cities across three countries, she now calls Tiohtiá:ke-Montréal home.

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book was perfect for me

M.o.S. · July 11, 2025

I spent a lot of time in India with work and looked for books that gave me “A taste” of India. Now that I’m retired, I finally find the perfect book that has stories as well as recipes. This is a beautiful work and I love the recipes.

3.0 out of 5 stars Overall it is a good book if you are interested in Indian history

A.L. · July 1, 2025

Thank you Netgalley, Dundurn Press, and Veena Gokhale for sending me this advanced review copy for free. I am leaving this review voluntarily.This book wasn't what I expected at all. I was expecting more deeply Indian lore, and more stories involving gods and legends, and not stories about colonizers.The stories were interesting, but very dry and sometimes hard to read. I did enjoy them though.The recipes were fantastic. Easy to read, and understand. I also appreciate the tips on where to find specific ingredients that are harder to come by in US grocery stores.I wish there had been some photos of the food, because I have no idea what these recipes are supposed to look like when they are finished.Overall it is a good book if you are interested in Indian history, but maybe not if you are looking specifically for a cookbook.

4.0 out of 5 stars History through tales of food

R.R. · July 5, 2025

This was an enchanting book about Indian history told through recipes. I loved the illustrations as well as the lyrical stories. The recipes were excellent as well.The cover design alone did not live up to the book.

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Description:

Mingling sweet, sour, and spicy notes, this inspiring retelling of diverse food legends from India, paired with delicious recipes, will feed mind, body, heart, and soul.

Annapurna, the Indian Goddess of Nourishment, presides over a rich harvest of stories reimagined for the twenty-first-century palate. Here, food manifests as ploy, bargain, symbolic communication, a bone of contention, a lesson, as it weaves through the lives of a cast of characters ― kings and commoners, witches and goddesses, gurus and bandits, refugees and travellers.

Each story is followed by a vegetarian recipe offered up by a character. Gathered from the four corners of India, there are well-known dishes like nourishing dal and irresistible mango lassi, novelties like avial and Bengali khichari, as well as a new twist on beloved foods, such as samosas with a peas and coconut filling.

Infused with humane values, expertly blending the timeless and the contemporary, the magical and the everyday, encompassing East, West, and the in-between, this fusion of fiction and food will delight and inspire.
Read more

Editorial Reviews

Review

Lovers of Indian culture and cuisine will delight in the panoply of characters in these tales where food is the riddle, the salve, the forger of bonds, the wisdom, the life-and-death clincher. Aromatic and flavourful reading! Excellent recipes a happy bonus! ― Alice Zorn, author of Colours in Her Hands

Annapurna’s Bounty is ingeniously designed as a banquet for the body and the mind: each of its ten chapters offers a tale and a recipe from various eras and regions of India. Men and women, divinities, demons and animals are the heroes of these vivid and colourful stories, over which floats the heady scent of mangoes and spices. ― Frédéric Charbonneau, author of L'école de la gourmandise

Veena Gokhale is a talented fiction writer and a food lover. Annapurna’s Bounty is an irresistible blend of these two great passions, combining delightful Indian legends, freshly told, with her personally honed recipes. This is a book you will want to buy twice: one to give a good friend and another to keep. ― Marianne Ackerman, Montreal novelist and playwright

Gokhale fleshes out the archetypes in these stories in a way that feels fresh and compelling, and time and place are beautifully, vividly rendered. I could almost swear that some of these stories have an actual aroma. When I came across the recipe for dal, I was inspired to head to the kitchen and make it.

― Anita Anand, author of A Convergence of Solitudes

There is a golden vein of poetry that flavours food lore, and Veena Gokhale has mined it well. Gokhale has served up a new oral tradition: a book fit to be consumed voraciously by mind and by mouth. These ancient tales of feast and famine and fire and flood have been skillfully reworked into a tapestry that weaves myth with menu. It deserves a permanent place at our dinner table.

― Gavin Barrett, Toronto poet, author of Understan, founder of Tartan Turban Secret Readings

From goddesses to gurus and samosas to curries, this volume is a collection of retellings complemented by vegetarian recipes using the rich legends and ingredients of India. Veena Gokhale feeds us mind, body and soul with this wise and delicious book. ― Ms. Magazine

About the Author

Veena Gokhale, an immigrant shape shifter, has worked as a journalist, teacher, literary curator, and in the non-profit sector. She has authored Bombay Wali and Other Stories and Land for Fatimah. Having lived in ten cities across three countries, she now calls Tiohtiá:ke-Montréal home.

Reviews:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book was perfect for me

M.o.S. · July 11, 2025

I spent a lot of time in India with work and looked for books that gave me “A taste” of India. Now that I’m retired, I finally find the perfect book that has stories as well as recipes. This is a beautiful work and I love the recipes.

3.0 out of 5 stars Overall it is a good book if you are interested in Indian history

A.L. · July 1, 2025

Thank you Netgalley, Dundurn Press, and Veena Gokhale for sending me this advanced review copy for free. I am leaving this review voluntarily.This book wasn't what I expected at all. I was expecting more deeply Indian lore, and more stories involving gods and legends, and not stories about colonizers.The stories were interesting, but very dry and sometimes hard to read. I did enjoy them though.The recipes were fantastic. Easy to read, and understand. I also appreciate the tips on where to find specific ingredients that are harder to come by in US grocery stores.I wish there had been some photos of the food, because I have no idea what these recipes are supposed to look like when they are finished.Overall it is a good book if you are interested in Indian history, but maybe not if you are looking specifically for a cookbook.

4.0 out of 5 stars History through tales of food

R.R. · July 5, 2025

This was an enchanting book about Indian history told through recipes. I loved the illustrations as well as the lyrical stories. The recipes were excellent as well.The cover design alone did not live up to the book.

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