There are cookery books and cookery books and anyone who can fry an egg can claim to be a cook. 

My first attempt at making a cup of tea for six of my father’s friends took all of half an hour simply because I only knew how to make one cup at a time and was waiting to get them all ready before taking out the tray! From that disastrous attempt to other even more disastrous attempts I gradually became a fairly adept cook. And what started out as a necessity soon became a passion. I also realised that food plays an important part in life’s celebrations and decided to compile a book documenting the customs and food of my community.

This has resulted  in my first ever cook book ” The Fragrance of Mango Blossom” a collection of recipes associated with the life style of the Kokanastha Brahmin community to which I belong. 

Yesterday morning when Armaity from Popular Prakashan called and said that the Business Development Manager Swapna Shinde wanted to meet me regarding my book I was wondering what it could be. My cookery book took ten years for me to write and another four years for it to get to this stage so I was a bit apprehensive. What could it be this time?

Well, I pushed the appointment a half hour earlier and went down the road to meet the publishers. Yes ! They were going ahead with the book and
They were going into print on MONDAY

A N D  (drumroll and cymbals)

The book will be out on the shelves in the first week of JULY.