01615nam a22002297a 4500 20250514150118.0 250419b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789353452421 AL English 23 338.9 BANC Abhijit Banerjee 209985 Chhaunk : on food economics and society New Delhi Juggernaut Books 2024 xii,331 p. HB 23.5x15.5 cm. DED4-56561 ₹538.35 ₹ ₹538.35 19-03-2025 A 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. Economics and Psychology 208551 Economics and Culture 208552 Economics and Social Policy 208553 ddc BK 234188 234188 0 0 ddc 0 0 ECO AL AL 2025-03-26 amazon.in 538.35 0 338.9 BANC 077633 2025-04-19 10:28:31 538.35 BK