Description
No two curries are the same. This Curry asks why the dish is supposed to represent everything brown people eat, read, and do.
Curry is a dish that doesn’t quite exist, but, as this hilarious and sharp essay points out, a dish that doesn’t properly exist can have infinite, equally authentic variations.By grappling with novels, recipes, travelogues, pop culture, and his own background, Naben Ruthnum depicts how the distinctive taste of curry has often become maladroit shorthand for brown identity. With the sardonic wit of Gita Mehta’s Karma Cola and the refined, obsessive palette of Bill Buford’s Heat, Ruthnum sinks his teeth into the story of how the beloved flavour calcified into an aesthetic genre that limits the imaginations of writers, readers, and eaters. Following in the footsteps of Salman Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands, Curry cracks open anew the staid narrative of an authentically Indian diasporic experience.
Auction History
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Highest bidder was: sheilathompsonfibreart
Date |
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October 4, 2020 7:07 pm | $155.00 | sheilathompsonfibreart | |
October 4, 2020 6:30 pm | $150.00 | timothy.taylor | |
October 4, 2020 6:29 pm | $140.00 | sheilathompsonfibreart | |
October 1, 2020 7:28 pm | $135.00 | timothy.taylor | |
October 1, 2020 11:01 am | $125.00 | amylaurajones | |
October 1, 2020 10:24 am | $120.00 | eloquentellen | |
October 1, 2020 7:05 am | $110.00 | sheilathompsonfibreart | |
September 30, 2020 12:14 pm | $105.00 | amylaurajones | |
September 29, 2020 9:38 pm | $101.00 | quinton_huang | |
September 29, 2020 6:47 pm | $100.00 | timothy.taylor | |
September 29, 2020 6:28 pm | $78.00 | sheilathompsonfibreart | |
September 29, 2020 5:14 pm | $72.00 | quinn.arruda | |
September 29, 2020 5:02 pm | $71.00 | giselledias37 | |
September 29, 2020 4:56 pm | $70.00 | eloquentellen | |
September 29, 2020 2:12 pm | $60.00 | timothy.taylor | |
September 29, 2020 11:33 am | $50.00 | amylaurajones | |
September 28, 2020 8:23 pm | $40.00 | sheilathompsonfibreart | |
September 28, 2020 8:22 pm | $30.00 | thealim | |
September 28, 2020 12:04 pm | $25.00 | sheilathompsonfibreart | |
September 28, 2020 11:11 am | $20.00 | noraepcole | |
September 28, 2020 9:00 am | Auction started |