Monsoon Diary

Shobha Narayan, the author of Monsoon Diary is actually my bro-in law’s colleague’s wife. As we were chatting yesterday, he mentioned that she writes a column in one of the Indian newspapers and covers random issues like, his example, – ‘everyone has a ma-ma (aka Uncle)’. She has also come out with a book a while back called the Monsoon Diary which is basically part cookbook, part travelogue and part biography. Haven’t read it yet, but would like to check it out. I guess the foodie in me can’t resist, although I can’t say I’ll buy it just for the recipes. Any of you piglets heard of/read any of her work?