Last Updated on January 29, 2026 Monsoon, published by DK, is Asma Khan’s third cookbook and presents the dishes she ate growing up in Bengal, where there were six recognised seasons – summer, monsoon, autumn, dry season, winter, and spring. Khan was born in the monsoon season, a time of year that holds spiritual significance for her, the season ‘when the world stopped and nature displayed its benevolence through rain’.