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Detailed explanation-1: -’Cooking to Save Your Life’ by Abhijit Banerjee.

Detailed explanation-2: -About the Author Abhijit Banerjee won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2019. He is the author of two books written with Esther Dufflo, Poor Economics and Good Economics for Hard Times. Cheyenne Olivier is an illustrator based in France.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cookbooks may be written by individual authors, who may be chefs, cooking teachers, or other food writers; they may be written by collectives; or they may be anonymous. They may be addressed to home cooks, to professional restaurant cooks, to institutional cooks, or to more specialized audiences.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first recorded cookbook that is still in print today is Of Culinary Matters (originally, De Re Coquinaria), written by Apicius, in fourth century AD Rome. It contains more than 500 recipes, including many with Indian spices.

Detailed explanation-5: -This is her first book. This excerpt from ‘Cooking To Save Your Life’ by Abhijit Banerjee, with illustrations by Cheyenne Olivier, has been published with permission from Juggernaut Books.