[jump] Next up to bat: Preeti Mistry, chef-owner of Juhu Beach Club — Temescal’s popular, hot-pink purveyor of curries and Mumbai-style pavs (aka “Indian sliders”). Mistry just announced that she’s working on a cookbook entitled My Indian, which she’ll co-write with Berkeley-based food writer Sarah Henry. According to the announcement Mistry sent out, the book will include 100 recipes from “the out-loud, mohawked, queer chef who has translated the homemade shaaks and rotis of her childhood into a fresh and modern Indian cuisine all her own.”
When reached via email, Mistry said My Indian will fall loosely in the cookbook-memoir genre, with stories about her personal history in addition to recipes. The outspoken chef also hasn’t been shy in the past about calling out the restaurant industry for institutional racism and sexism, so it’s probably fair to assume that she’ll be blunt and to the point when telling her life story too.
The book is slated to be released by Running Press Publishing, most likely in the spring of 2018.
