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041			_aEnglish
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100			_a Abhijit Banerjee _9209985
245			_aChhaunk _b: on food economics and society
260			_aNew Delhi _bJuggernaut Books _c2024
300			_axii,331 p. _bHB _c23.5x15.5 cm.
365			_aDED4-56561 _b₹538.35 _c₹ _d₹538.35 _f19-03-2025
520			_aA sparkling book of essays by Nobel Prize winner Abhijit Banerjee Chhaunk, oil infused with different spices, lies at the heart of Indian cooking. It is just a few teaspoons, but it finishes a dish and gives it its particular piquancy. The pieces in this delightful book can be seen as a literary chhaunk – a sprinkling of ideas and arguments around the social sciences, which imparts its own distinct flavour. Part memoir, part cookbook, Chhaunk playfully uses food to talk about economics, society and India, and makes unexpected connections, say, between savings and shami kebab or between women’s liberation and the Bengali vegetable dish of ghanto. Abhijit Banerjee, economist and Nobel laureate, loves to cook and feed people, and misses India all the time. This delicious collection of essays – light in style and big on ideas – is his attempt to string the many parts of his eclectic existence together.
650			_aEconomics and Psychology _9208551
650			_aEconomics and Culture _9208552
650			_aEconomics and Social Policy _9208553
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