From promotion for the 2018 Tasting India Symposium, founded by Sourish "to empower Indian gastronomy and... to generate widespread, informed awareness of India’s rich and diverse gastronomy." Photo copyright d for delhi. I'm pleased to report that Bloomsbury UK will publish a major new reference work on Indian cuisine edited by Colleen Taylor Sen, a Chicago-based author of five books on Indian history and cuisine, and Sourish Bhattacharyya, a Delhi-based journalist, Consulti

This deal actually closed in early October, but I am hopeless at timely self-promotion, so here we are a month later. NEVERTHELESS I am delighted to announce that Colleen Taylor Sen's eighth book, a history of the Maurya dynasty in India and its greatest ruler, Ashoka the (aptly nicknamed) Great, will be published by the British press Reaktion Books. Here is the deal memo on PublishersMarketplace: Historian of Indian cuisine and culture Colleen Taylor Sen's THE MAURYA DYNASTY