406: Fictional Food Comes Alive with Celina Baljeet Basra

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Celina Baljeet Basra is the Berlin based author of Happy, a sweet and surreal postmodern novel released last year. It follows a young man named Happy from his family cabbage farm in Punjab to his clandestine journey to Europe, and the service jobs he works along the way. I’ve never read a book quite like Happy and it's so fun to have Celina on the show to talk about unconventional food writing, her favorite restaurants in Berlin, and more.

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MORE FROM CELINA BALJEET BASRA:

Happy [Literary Hub]
The Tragic Exploitation that Puts Food on Our Plates [Washington Post]

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