Fear. Abandonment. Love. Marriage. Crisis. Determination. Food. Comfort. Home.`Not For You¿ explores the culinary heritage of one family through personal narratives and folk lore. It uses detailed storytelling to understand how simple people with very few opportunities were able to change the course of their own future. Through their stories, this book explores and uncovers the back-stories of comfort foods that still find a place on one food-writers 21st century table.This narrative non-fiction is written as a two-part novel. The first book begins in India and takes the readers through several local rural geographies. The second book begins in urban India, in the pre-Independence era and follows one of its lead character to the United States, where she settles down in Georgia, in the year 2015.This first book begins its journey back back in time into rural India, in the late 19th century. It reveals the ordinary lives of peasants and farmers, and explores how their struggles with the political climate of the region shaped their futures. In this first book, readers will meet the men and women of that time, experience the choices they made and take a glimpse into how they changed the lives of their children. When they had little or nothing, how did they move forward? How did they raise their children? How did they persevere? The first book spans a period of nearly 70 years and ends just at the cusp of the Indian Independence from Britain.