The Migrant’s Table: Meals and Memories in Bengali-American Households. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004Ray, Krishnendu. Nation and Cuisine: The Evidence from American Newspapers ca. 1830–2003. Food
A Bengali version of the epic, composed by 14th-century poet Krittivas, offers an alternative telling of Rama’s ultimate victory and establishes the celebration of Durga Puja in autumn, a deviation from the customary festive period during harvest season earlier in the year. In Krittivas’s ...