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I am the author of Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing Up Between Cultures, A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Girl (Ballantine) which was a School Library Journal Winner: Best Adult Book for Young Adults, the SUNY Old Westbury First Year Experience book selection , a Moment Magazine Staff Pick , and a frequent book club choice.

Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing Up Between Cultures-A Memoir ...

As rites and traditions, smells and textures intertwine, Carmit’s unique cultural identity evolves.

	Carmit Delman's journey through religious traditions, family tensions, and social tribulations to a healthy sense of wholeness and self is rendered with grace.
	Food culture is my passion.
	Carmit Delman's memories of the sometimes painful, sometimes pleasurable, often awkward moments of her adolescence juxtapose strikingly with mythic tales of her.

Carmit Delman, author of Consider the Feast: A Novel

Burnt Bread and Chutney: 04/02/08 I feel rather split brained about Burnt Bread and Chutney the memoir by Carmit Delman.

Burnt Bread and Chutney by Carmit Delman - Open Library

A couple years after graduating, I first started teaching college, but I was far too young for it.

Burnt Bread and Chutney - Google Books

I feel rather split brained about Burnt Bread and Chutney the memoir by Carmit Delman.

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Burnt Bread and Chutney: A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Girl, by Carmit Delman, Ballantine Books, $22.95; Random House, $13.95.

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Carmit Delman’s journey through religious traditions, family tensions, and social tribulations to a healthy sense of wholeness and self is rendered with grace and an acute sense of depth.

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I picked up Carmit Delman's memoir Burnt Bread and Chutney: Growing Up Between Cultures--A Memoir of an Indian Jewish Girl, on the recommendation of commentor Piaw(who has many challenging posts on her blog). Delman's mother is an Indian Jew originally from the Bene Israel community in Bombay, and her father is an Orthodox Jew of Eastern European descent from New York. Delman herself grew up mostly in New York, with some brief stints in Israel.

I'm about two-thirds through it, and I have to say that I'm not that thrilled about the book, though I am learning things here and there. It's a little too much a memoir of growing up and going to school in the U.S. while being "different," which isn't especially interesting per se. What's more interesting to me is the sense of alienation Delman's family often felt even within the American Jewish community. Sitting in the back of the synagogue, people would often ask Delman and her siblings about their background:

When we explained that