My cook book’s been so long in the making that honestly I began to think it would be published posthumously.

I’m not joking because when I first submitted it to the publishers it was so long ago that the original editor has retired.

Then when the book was all ready and proofed and we had discussed the launch etc, I was about to approach the only celebrity I knew to grace the occasion when unfortunately he died.

So I used to joke that perhaps my book would be published posthumously.

Thankfully that’s not happening………….and I am grateful to my publishers for going ahead with the printing.

Hard Copies are having a hard time these days being published and a harder time being sold. That’s the reason many publishers are actually going slow on printing new titles and a book like mine written by Mrs. Nobody from Nowhere doesn’t stand much of a chance when competing with cookbooks written by curvaceous models who cook as good as they look or glamorous cooks whose tv shows are almost erotic and have you salivating at the thought of licking the bowl!

But hopefully there will be someone out there who is interested in reading a cookbook like mine and the publishers are willing to take the risk. My book which is a compendium of recipes handed down from generation to generation in my shrinking community. It is more a collection of traditions and rituals which we follow and the food with which we celebrate them. 

It is my own journey into a culinary tradition that is slowly dying out and with this book, I hope to inspire future generations to keep alive the recipes if not the rituals and traditions that go with them!

Thank you Popular Prakashan for having faith in me.