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#BookReview: Spirits In A Spice Jar by Sarina Kamini

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Follow my blog with Bloglovin Title : Spirits In A Spice Jar Author: Sarina Kamini Publisher :  Westland Ltd Published on: 29th May 2018 Binding: Paperback ISBN:  978-9386850195 "Dhania that contains the seed of who I am: the soft and citric taste of my own self -determination." BLURB For Sarina Kamini’s Kashmiri family, food is love, love is faith, and faith is family. It’s cause for total emotional devastation when, ten years after her Australian mother is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, unaddressed grief turns the spice of this young food writer’s heritage to ash and her prayers to poison. At her lowest ebb, Sarina’s dead Ammi’s typed-up cooking notes become a recipe for healing, her progress in the kitchen marked by her movement through bitterness, grief and loneliness—the daal that is too fiery and lumpen; her play with salt that pricks and burns. In teaching herself how to personalise tradition and spirituality through