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She grew up in Kolkata at the age of 20, she went to Harvard where she did her Masters in English. There she met and married a Bangladeshi Muslim, and changed her name to Banerji-Abdullah. After living in Bangladesh for seven years, the marriage ended in divorce. She now lives in Boston with her doctor husband.

In the 80s, she translated several Bengali novels, including Satyajit Ray's Adventures of Feluda and Sunil Gangopadhyay's Arjun.

Her Bengali Cooking: Seasons and Festivals (1997), was a pioneering book on the food and culture of Bengal. Subsequently, she has authored several more books on related themes, including the Hour of the Goddess: Memories of Women, Food, and Ritual in Bengal (2007), and Eating India' (2008).