Abhijit Banerjee won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019. He is the author of two books written with Esther Duflo Poor Economics (winner of the FT Goldman Sachs Prize) and Good Economics for Hard Times and of one cookbook Cooking to Save Your Life. Cheyenne Olivier is an illustrator based in France. Her books include Cooking to Save Your Life and Poor Economics for Kids.
<p>Chhaunk oil infused with different spices lies at the heart of Indian cooking. It is just a few teaspoons but it finishes a dish and gives it its particular piquancy. The pieces in this delightful book can be seen as a literary chhaunk – a sprinkling of ideas and arguments around the social sciences which imparts its own distinct flavour. <span style="font-size: 1rem;">Part memoir part cookbook Chhaunk playfully uses food to talk about economics society and India and makes unexpected connections say between savings and shami kebab or between women’s liberation and the Bengali vegetable dish of ghanto. </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Abhijit Banerjee economist and Nobel laureate loves to cook and feed people and misses India all the time. This delicious collection of essays – light in style and big on ideas – is his attempt to string the many parts of his eclectic existence together.</span></p>
