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Her role as cook

Madhur Jaffrey has acted in films and on TV shows, has written books, and as a young woman away from home, learned to make the food of her native India. Madhur Jaffrey has acted in films and on TV shows, has written books, and as a young woman away from home, learned to make the food of her native India.
By Sheryl Julian
Globe Staff / April 1, 2009

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Madhur Jaffrey was raised in Delhi and came to the United States to act. She earned one of her first awards for a role in the 1965 Merchant-Ivory film "Shakespeare Wallah." She's written more than a dozen books, including the memoir "Climbing the Mango Trees." She and her husband, Sanford Allen, a retired New York Philharmonic violinist, live in New ... (Full article: 449 words)

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