Nina Furstenau teaches food and wine writing at the University of Missouri, writes a food column for Missouri Life magazine, and received the International Regional Magazine Association’s Award for Food Writing in 2009. She has recently completed a food memoir, Biting Through The Skin: Tales from an Indian Kitchen. She was a month-long resident at the […]
Nina Mukerjee Furstenau
Nina Mukerjee Furstenau: Biting Through the Skin
My first memories of trips to India while growing up are of my grandparents, a neighbor girl named Sweeti, and craggy faces of rickshaw drivers. Under these vivid mind pictures, though, is a feeling that loosens something under my sternum. It stems from the awe of seeing my father look taller, more vitally part of […]