Food, Therapy and Healing: Exploring Culinary Practices As A Therapeutic Approach in Amulya Malladi’s Serving Crazy with Curry

Abstract

The study explores how food functions as a healing to the traumatized Indian immigrants in the United States as portrayed in Amulya Malladi’s Serving Crazy with Curry. The research focuses how cooking becomes an expression in the healing process of the main protagonist Devi Veturi, a second-generation immigrant in the United States. Devi’s fusion of Indo-Western cuisine indicates her mediation between tradition and modernity and her struggle to merge her crumbled identities. Through this study, the paper discusses how cooking becomes a therapeutic process and as a form of Devi’s way of resistance and survivalin the face of adversity.