India, April 4 -- In First Bite, journalist and food-culture writer Priyadarshini Chatterjee travels across 10 Indian cities - Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Amritsar, Varanasi, Shillong, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad - to explore breakfast as history, habit, and everyday necessity. From temple offerings and home kitchens to roadside stalls and century-old eateries, she follows the morning meal into lanes, markets and workspaces, uncovering the rhythms that bring a city to life at dawn. Neither a recipe collection nor a list of must-eat addresses, First Bite uses breakfast as a lens through which to explore how cities function. She traces the evolution of India's morning meals, from ancient texts and ritual offerings to working-class sustenance and the rise of public eateries in urban India. Written with warmth and rigour, First Bite blends food history with cultural reportage. This is a book of extraordinary stories about ordinary meals....