At once a traveler s tale, a memoir, and a mouthwatering cookbook, "Biting through the Skin" offers a first-generation immigrant s perspective on growing up in America s heartland. Author Nina Mukerjee Furstenau s parents brought her from Bengal in northern India to the small town of Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1964, decades before you could find long-grain rice or plain yogurt in American grocery stores. Embracing American culture, the Mukerjee family ate hamburgers and softserve ice cream, took a visiting guru out on the lake in their motorboat, and joined the Shriners. Her parents transferred...