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Winner, gold award, Best Hard Cover Recipe Book 2002-2003, Jacob's Creek World Food Media Awards, Adelaide, Australia
The Food of India captures the spirit of one of the world's great cuisines. It includes myriad exciting recipes for the vast array of dishes that are India's modern cuisine, from traditional Moghul dishes, such as korma and kofta, to a selection of breads, dals, and fragrant basmati rice dishes, including pulao and biryani. Stunning color photographs allow readers to explore the country's beauty and rich diversity: snack-sellers on the beaches of Mumbai, rossogolla-makers of Kolkata; the tea gardens of Assam and Munnar.
About The Food of... series
A culinary journey around the world.
Each title in The Food of... series is a comprehensive introduction to one of the world's great cuisines. The books feature more than 100 delicious recipes highlighting the country's culinary treasures. Instructive color photographs of each dish in preparation identify the local ingredients, from vegetables and flavorings fresh from the market to street snacks, sweets, and colorful exotic fruits. Full-color feature sections explore the essence of each individual culture's food and cooking techniques.
About the Author
Priya Wickramasinghe is a chef and author originally from Sri Lanka whose previous titles include Spicy and Delicious and Leith's Indian and Sri Lankan Cookery.
Carol Selva Rajah is a chef, author, teacher, and television presenter. She has written 12 cookbooks including Makan-Lah!: The True Taste of Malaysia. She also writes frequently for Australian Gourmet Traveller and many other publications.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book for Indian food.,
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This review is from: The Food of India: A Journey for Food Lovers (Paperback)
I have lived in Andhra(South East), Bangalore(South Central), Delhi(North) and Uttar Pradesh(North West) provinces of India for extensive periods of time. I have also lived in United Kingdom Germany United States and Canada. My perspective of this book comes both as a foreigner and an Indian. This book looks very closely at the culture of the Indian people in trying to bring out the recipes. The authors have done their research in terms of the background on Indian food and culture. Also the photographs are just beautiful, picturising the Indian cusine and the culture around making food. The photographs also capture the Indian life since a large population of Indians live on microeconomic means such as selling one or two of these dishes, vegetables, or such, to make their living. From the chat shops on Bombay Chaupati, to the south Indian dosa's I got lost in the color and flavours depicted in the book. I have the hardcover version of this book, and over the last year or so I have used the book on a regular basis whenever our family invites friends for dinner, which we do on a monthly basis. All our friends love the book and its recipes.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The Fabulous Food of India,
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This review is from: The Food of India: A Journey for Food Lovers (Paperback)
This book about cooking Indian food is a work of art. Not only are there comprehensive detailed instructions about cooking the curries but some historical information and beautiful colored pictures on how the food should look while being ready for serving!What is most important is that the end result has given me the best tasting curries that I have ever cooked and has solved for me the mystery of Indian Food. I have the soft cover edition which is beautifully bound together with a table of contents,bibliography,index and a glossary of Indian food and cooking. One of the best purchases that I have ever made. I can't wait to cook some more curries!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good recipes, great pictures!,
By C. J. Thompson "Arctic John" (Pond Inlet, Nunavut Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Food of India (Hardcover)
There are, as far as I know, seven volumes in this nice little "Food of" series,each subtitled 'A Journey for Food lovers.' I bought the hardcover edition of the Indian volume first and only afterward learned it was part of a series. Since then I have bought three others. As I like all of these books for the same reasons, it would be easiest to do a general review and then add a few comments concerning the individual volumes.Mostly, the real pleasure from these books is the tremendous photography. The recipes are fine - I don't wish to suggest otherwise - but I wouldn't be as fond of these books if the recipes were the sole basis by which one could judge them. There is a picture for every recipe (some of them whole page photographs) and occasionally there are supplementary shots detailing some part of the cooking process. There are also all sorts of other pictures, some of which are directly or indirectly related to food, some of which are scenic shots, or pictures of people engaged in everyday life in the region in question. All are beautifully executed. The book is divided into recipe sections based on the type of food (snacks, main meat dishes, seafood etc) and each book has half a dozen 'Food Journey' sections which deal with some aspect of the cuisine at hand. The Chinese book for example has a section on 'dim sum', and the Indian volume has one on spices. In the hardcover Indian book, these sections are fold-out pages with lots of photographs whilst in the paperback editions I own each section is just a brief two page spread. All the books introduce the region in question with a descriptive culinary overview and the final recipe chapter in each book is entitled 'Basics' and provides tips and recipes on making various essentials in the cuisine. The Food of India: A Journey for Food Lovers - This, along with the Chinese volume' counts at the top of my 'favourite' list in this series. The 'dal' recipes are excellent and the recipes in the 'Basics' section for Coconut milk and Paneer were nice to see. The Food of China: A Journey for Food Lovers - The most beautiful recipe pictures of all the books, I think. The Turnip Cake recipe is on of the best I have tried and the 'Basics' section is excellent. The Food of Spain: A Journey for Food Lovers - Great textual introduction to Spanish cuisine in the first chapter. I *especially* love the Tapas section... I just wish this part could have been longer. The Food of Italy: A Journey for Food Lovers - This is my least favorite of the books I currently own but that comment should not scare away potential purchasers. The book is has the same excellent qualities as the others, I just personally am more interested in Indian, Chinese and Spanish cuisine than I am Italian. The remaining books in this series, as far as I know, are The Food of France: A Journey for Food Lovers, The Food of Thailand: A Journey for Food Loversand The Food of Morocco: A Journey for Food Lovers. I will certainly review any that I subsequently purchase. I will probably buy the French volume some time... I find Thai cuisine fascinating, although I don't like it very much, while Morrocan food doesn't particularly interest me very much. Still, I may just buy them for the terrific visual appeal!
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