India, Jan. 10 -- Tell My Mother I Like Boys is a memoir of appetite: for food, love, belonging. Suvir Saran, a celebrated chef, traces a life lived between continents and cultures, where the kitchen becomes both sanctuary and crucible. From the streets of Delhi to the pressure-cooked world of New York dining, he reveals how cooking is never just about taste but about memory, survival and the making of the self. Saran writes of the exhilaration of opening Devi, the first Indian restaurant in North America to earn a Michelin star, and of the loneliness that trailed even the brightest success. In his hands, food becomes a vocabulary: the slow patience of a biryani, the intricate layering of a galouti kebab, the quiet comfort of dal simmered at home. Each dish carries memory and meaning, stitching together fragments of exile, grief, desire and homecoming. At once an intimate kitchen story and a reckoning with identity, Tell My Mother I Like Boys is about the hungers that shape us and the meals that teach us how to live....