About the Book

Pandering to people’s peripatetic passions and culinary cravings?

Alliteratively, perhaps, but alluringly too!

Rita Bhimani, PR diva, author, educator, attempts to jiggle the curiosity of the well-heeled traveller and the foodie alike in a narrative tempered with cuisines that speak of individual creativity, deep cultural dives, and heaped hospitality.

Embark on an unforgettable gastronomic adventure, punched in with abatjour anecdotes from the sun-kissed peach picking in Georgia, to the spicy curries of Sri Lanka, from the perfect rosé quaffs at the French vineyards of Provence, from Italy's comforting pastas to Spain's varied tapas fare, from the munificent Hilsa delights of Bangladesh, to the multi-cultural offerings of the rainbow nation of South Africa, from the Cookery Queens and their piquant stories, to heirloom recipes, and finding an amazing similarity between cuisines and techniques—this book is your passport to a world of tantalizing flavours and cultural treasures.

Praise for the book

Rita whets our desire to travel, to zip across the world much like herself, gratifying our culinary cravings and immersing ourselves in sundry wondrous cultures whose legends and lores inform their cuisines, and vice versa...to capture for posterity in her playful, irreverent prose. A brilliant, entertaining read out and out, Meandering Mouthfuls should not be missed at any cost.

– Dr Shashi Tharoor, MP, author, former diplomat (excerpted from the Foreword)