A review by fallchicken
Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India by Madhur Jaffrey

3.0

For [author: Madhur Jaffrey] cooking fans, this is an interesting read, the story of her early life in India. The descriptions of food are especially good, of course, as well as the look at daily life in a well-to-do family. There are some tempting family recipes included.

Small sections of the book are quite chatty and read nicely, but the book doesn't hang together. It feels like scraps of writing hastily thrown together. An editor to help with the structure and a proofreader to help with typos and grammar errors would have been appreciated.