I enjoyed reading these essays. The author explores growing up in Canada, eating curry and reading as a child of immigrants. There are a couple of recipes, a history of curry, and book reviews. Enjoy these thought provoking essays

A great read on about the great curries...... wonderful.

This collection of essays is an interesting exploration into the world of a food we can easily talk about but we can hardly define properly: curry. Especially if you didn't grow up with it, you rarely think twice before assigning it to a special geographical area, assuming that this 'unreal' food is in fact part of the everyday tastes. As it happens in such cases, it is a completely wrong assumption and the essays beautifully written have the role of opening the eyes and the mind to the various symbols carried on by a relatively common dish. Strongly recommended to anyone interested in food stories well told.

Curry is a heartfelt, emotionally engaging collection of essays on what it feels like to be a "brown person" in the West. Ruthnum uses such a broad term to categorize his own culture to reflect how the Western audience tends to clamp together multiple nationalities, very much like any saucy, fragrant rice dish is categorized as curry. Each essay is an eye-opener and provides multiple arguments to chew on.

This book was a captivating exploration of food, literature, and identity from the perspective of the South Asian diaspora! I look forward to reading this talented author's upcoming debut novel.

I wasn't sure what to make of this essay, but I'm pretty sure I enjoyed reading it -- but not more than enjoying curry; in it's many forms defined by the author. I hadn't been aware of how curry can be perceived in various cultures, and it was fairly eye-opening. I hadn't even known of the Mauritius Island off the coast of Africa; overall, I learned quite a bit from "Curry".