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Fri 02 Feb 2009Intercontinental cooking adds flavour to migrant's memoirs
BOOK OF THE DAY: MALCOLM SENreviews The Settler’s Cookbook: A Memoir of Love, Migration and FoodBy Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Portobello Books 439pp, £20.00
BROUGHT UP in Uganda by Indian parents and now living in Britain, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s life is exemplary of many second- and third-generation migrant identities made distinctive by further foreign travel and settlement. Little has been written of Ugandan Indians (the Wahindi), some of whom managed to migrate to Britain after Idi Amin’s infamous policy of ridding his country of British passport-wielding Asians in 1972.
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