TY - BOOK AU - Narayan,Shoba TI - Monsoon diary: reveries and recipes from South India SN - 0553816357 PY - 2004/// CY - London PB - Bantam KW - Cookery KW - India, South KW - City and town life N1 - Shoba Narayan paints a rich portrait of small-town life in South India, populated by characters like the flower woman who brings jasmine for the gods, the milkman who names his cows after his wives, and the iron-man who picks up red-hot coals with his bare hands. Her stories are matched by recipes as varied as the Indian spices ER -