Charmaine O Brien

Charmaine O’Brien is a writer, culinary historian and educator and the author of several books on Indian food history and culture including The Penguin Food Guide to India, the first comprehensive work on Indian regional food. Her other works include Flavours of Melbourne: a culinary biography (Wakefield Press 2008), Recipes from an Urban Village: A cookbook from Hazrat Nizamuddin Basti (The Hope Project Charitable Trust, 2003), and Flavours of Delhi: A Food Lovers Guide (Penguin Books, India, 2003).