Madhushree Ghosh’s recent release, Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family (University of Iowa Press, 2022), details her life in both India and the United States. In essays that range from discussions of fish curry to the assassination of Indira Gandhi and womanhood, Ghosh’s work gives the reader so many more dimensions with which to consider food that is becoming more and more familiar to the American landscape – and forces us to consider ever more deeply what we thought we knew.
We sat down to talk about her craft, the art of merging marketing and social media with writing, and more.
The Writer: Can we talk a little about marketing? You have a real knack for it – you’ve even started a company called Desi Girl Gourmet, which is all about sharing the flavors of your home country with others. Do you find that works its way into your writing career?
I am an introvert or am introverted, which people find very funny given the fact that they think I know everybody, and I talk to everybody,
