If you'd be interested in more of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's personal story, you might like her A Memoir of Love, Migration and Food, which is far less a recipe collection than the name suggests. I reviewed it here (http://lizw.livejournal.com/501584.html).
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Date: 2009-06-04 01:33 pm (UTC)Edited because I misremembered the title.