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Reprinting culinary heritage

  My original copy is now falling apart like a cracker paper, and is kept in sealed plastic bags. Worms are probably eating (it) away,” noted Boston resident and culinary author of 12 cookbooks Rita Kapadia (pictured alongside), of the two volumes of Vividh Vani (Assorted dishes) she brought to the USA 30 years ago from Ahmedabad. Keen to preserve "our Parsi heritage,” she used the help of Amazon Services to reprint the two-volume set comprising of 2,180 recipes in Gujarati that first appeared in the final decades of the 19th century. "Preserving the work of (Vividh Vani author) Meherbai......



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