Goodreads asked Meera Ekkanath Klein:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Meera Ekkanath Klein The catalyst for My Mother's Kitchen was tragedy. My mother died in 2007 and I always wanted to write a tribute to her. A year later I joined a writing group and the group decided to publish a small magazine featuring work by members of the group. So I decided to do a piece about my mother and my memories of growing up in her kitchen. It seemed natural to add a recipe at the end of the piece. The piece "Mother's Lemon Rice" was very popular and everyone kept asking me if I was going to write more stories about life in my mother's kitchen. The first piece was auto-biographical but I changed the focus of book from myself to fiction. "My Mother's Kitchen" was easy to write and I finished it less than a year.

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