The Great Indian Food Trip: Around a Subcontinent à la Carte

The Great Indian Food Trip is an entertaining, erudite adventure of eating, drinking and travelling. This is how Zac OYeah has come to understand the Indian subcontinent, his home of thirty years.

OYeahs fast-paced yet profound account charts a writers untiring quest for new cultural and culinary experiences. We accompany him on a spare parts tour of Shivajinagar, Bengalurus slaughterhouse area. He shares the pleasures of drinking beer in Karnataka, toddy in Kerala; eating boiled vegetables and masala-less curries in the Mahatmas ashram; and finding the true secret of tandoori chicken in Chandigarh. He discovers Goas literati sipping cashew feni with Orhan Pamuk and Amitav Ghosh, and finds two of his favourite foodsmushrooms and cheesein shamudatsi, a Bhutanese stew.

Whether youre a lover of Indian cuisine or a wanderer seeking inspiration, this multi-course meal promises wonderful discoveries of Indias delicacies, their origins and their locales. OYeah captures India in a nutshella big, coconut-sized one.