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Indian

Anjum Anand

Indian Every Day: Light, Healthy Indian Food
Anjum Anand

Anjum Anand appreciates the struggle to find light and healthy Indian food and does her utmost to make balanced meals we can indulge in every day...


Cooking Like Mummyji
Vicky Bhogal
Paperback 224 pages (October 6, 2003) Publisher: Simon & Schuster ISBN: 0743239822

 

Mridula Baljekar

Monica Bhide

Douglas Bullis

REAL FAST INDIAN FOOD

Indian Cooking Without Fat -

Secrets from an
Indian Kitchen

Curry
Mridula Baljekar (Editor)

 

Great Indian Feasts
Mridula Baljekar
Hardcover 224 pages (October 5, 2005) Publisher: Blake Publishing ISBN: 184454141X

 

Mridula Baljekar's book 'Curry', published by Anness Publishing, has enjoyed a very successful worldwide sale for the past four years. The book has now been published in paperback with the title 'The World's Greatest-Ever Curries' with easy-to-follow presentation and step-by-step photography and sumptuous full-colour pictures of every recipe.

The Spice is Right

The author of The Spice is Right, Monica Bhide has an engineering degree from Bangalore University and two master's in information systems technology from George Washington University. Yet, when faced with the problem of where to get a good, straightforward Indian recipe book, she did the only thing a self-respecting Indian woman would do - she wrote it herself!

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The Food of Sri Lanka

 

The Bombay Brasserie Cookbook - Udit Sarkhel, Vernon Morgan,
Ismail Merchant (Introduction)

The country's top Indian restaurant shares some of its secrets and gives an insight into the history and culture of Bombay at the same time.

The Cinnamon Club Cookbook Iqbal Wahhab, Vivek Singh

Hardcover 224 pages (October 1, 2003)
Publisher: Absolute Press
ISBN: 1904573010

Pat Chapman

Good Curry Guide (Paperback) by Pat Chapman
Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd; New Ed edition (20 April 2007)
ISBN-10: 1844543110
ISBN-13: 978-1844543113

Pat Chapman's Vegetable Curry Bible
Pat Chapman

This vegetable curry cookbook brings the much-loved curry house menu to life, dish by dish and curry by curry. It also features additional recipes for soups, and beverages, snacks and starters, breads and rice, and desserts.

Kris Dhillon
The Curry Secret -

A book now in its umpteenth reprint, it gives the secret of Indian Restaurant Cooking - not the traditional cuisine practised by Indians at home - but the particularly interesting and distinctive variety that is served in Indian restaurants all over the world.

 

Floyd's India
Keith Floyd

This title accompanies the eight-part television series for Channel 5 of the same name.

Almina Govindji

Weight Watchers Feasts from the East Almina Govindji

Paperback - 48 pages (6 January, 1997)
Simon & Schuster; ISBN: 0684818019

This cookbook makes exotic dishes approachable and suitable for healthy eating. The recipes make use of ingredients readily available from the supermarket, and focus on popular Chinese and Indian dishes.

The Little Book of Curry
by Rod Green
Ebury Press ISBN 0091879566 £2.50

A little pocket-sized tongue-in-cheek book that supposedly tells you all you need to know about curry. It aims to be both funny and informative and will certainly appeal to late night curry afficionados. As the author says “Curries and Indian restaurants have become the butt of countless jokes and this book will do nothing to change that”. Not my choice nor the sister book ‘The Little Book of Lager” as the humour is quite basic and the ‘facts’ often questionable.

The Classic 1000 Indian Recipes
C. Humphries
Paperback 464 pages (March 14, 2002) Publisher: Foulsham ISBN: 0572028075

From classic favourites to exotic regional specialities, this is handy for everything from salads and snacks to special dinner parties, and includes all the most popular favourites.

Going For A Curry?
by Khadim Hussain published by Ek Zuban £8.00

ISBN: 0954748778

This social and culinary history of the Middlesbrough curry scene is obviously a labour of love by Mr Hussain. This 66 page black and white well illustrated book looks at the growth of the curry restaurant industry and the early ethnic settlers in the Middlesbrough area. Some of the local anecdotes are fascinating and chart a development that was happening at the same time in towns and cities all over Britain. One for the shelf.

Madhur Jaffrey

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Foolproof Indian Cookery

 

Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible
Madhur Jaffrey
Hardcover 288 pages (2 October, 2003)
Publisher: Ebury Press; ISBN: 0091874157

 

Indian Cookery: The Comprehensive Guide from the
World's Best-selling Indian Cook
Madhur Jaffrey

Miriam Kasin Hospadar

Heaven's Banquet - Vegetarian Cooking for Lifelong Health the Ayurveda Way

A collection of more than seven hundred international vegetarian recipes based on Ayurvedic principles and practices explains how to enchance the immune system, prevent disease, and promote health and healing with a wide range of vegetarian specialties.

Atul Kochhar

Indian Essence: The Fresh Tastes of India's New Cuisine Atul Kochhar Hardcover 160 pages (May 21, 2004)
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing ISBN: 184400077X

A collection of new ideas in Indian Cuisine from one of the first Indian Michelin star winners.

 

Pinky Lilani

SPICE MAGIC - An Indian Culinary Adventure by

Pinky Lilani is possibly better known for work with community organisations such as Prince's Youth Business Trust as well as being Chairman of the Asian Women of Achievement Awards which she founded in 1999. She is also, however, an accomplished Indian Food Development Consultant and has now produce a book that aims to unlock the secrets of authentic Indian cooking.

Linda Majzlik

A Vegan Taste of India
Linda Majzlik

 

Brit Spice
Manju Malhi, Tara Fisher (Photographer)

Hardcover - 224 pages (6 June, 2002)
Michael Joseph; ISBN: 0718145038

 

Kunjamma Mathew
AN INDIAN IN EXILE

Mary Kennedy has compiled this book as a labour of love for her mother Kunjamma Mathew who was born and grew up in Kerala, South India training in then teaching Domestic Science. In 1946 she married Kovoor Mathen Mathew and moved to Malaya where she brought up a big family which eventually scattered to England, Australia, Wales, Penang, and Kuala Lumpur. This has resulted in a fascinating collection of dishes merging several cultures.The book is not on general sale but can be bought through Amazon.com or via www.anindianinexile.com for £12.50 (£15.00 outside UK).

G.K. Noon, Delia Smith
The NOON Book of Authentic Indian Cookery

 

Sri Owen

New Wave Asian: A Guide to the Southeast Asian Food Revolution Sri Owen
Paperback 192 pages (August 6, 2004) Publisher: Quadrille Publishing ISBN: 1844001059

As the doyenne of Southeast Asian cuisine, Sri Owen, gives the reader all the know-how they need to make the most of this exciting food culture.

Camllia Panjabi

50 Great Curries of India
Camellia Panjabi

Paperback - 192 pages (28 September, 2000)
Kyle Cathie; ISBN: 1856263800

Pat Chapman, Founder of The Curry Club
"Arguably's India's foremost gourmet and food expert&ldots; a culinary milestone "

Meena Pathak

Meena Pathak's Flavours Of India: The Authentic Tastes of India with 100 Easy Recipes
Meena Pathak

Hardcover - 127 pages (1 October, 2002)
New Holland Publishers (UK); ISBN: 184330161X

Indian Low Fat Cooking (Global Gourmet S.)
Roshi Razzaq
Paperback 128 pages (June 2, 2000) Publisher: Apple Press ISBN: 1840922656

THE CALCUTTA KITCHEN
by Simon Parkes & Udit Sarkhel published by Mitchell Beasley £20

ISBN: 1845330773

Top Indian chef Udit Sarkhel hails from Bengal and author and journalist Simon Parkes has a deep love for and knowledge of the region so it is not surprising that this book is something special.

Sumana Ray

Indian Vegetarian Cooking

"The Global Gourmet" series presents a range of dishes, recipes and ingredients from countries and cultures all around the world. In this case Indian cooking is explored, with emphasis on its vegetarian uses.

Claudia Roden

Tamarind & Saffron -

Das Sreedharan

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The New Tastes of India

This title is a collection of vegetarian recipes from Kerala in Southern India byDas Sreedharan, owner of the award-winning Rasa restaurants.

FRESH FLAVOURS OF INDIA

Cyrus Todiwala

Cafe Spice Namaste

One of Britain's leading chefs, trained by the famous Taj Group in India, and now running his own award winning establishment in the City of London with wife, Pervin.

Henry Yule, A.C. Burnell

Hobson-Jobson: the Anglo-Indian Dictionary

A must for collectors of trivia, Hobson-Jobson is a wealth of information on the origins of all Anglo-Indian words and phrases.

Colleen Taylor Sen

Food Culture in India Colleen Taylor Sen
Hardcover 232 pages (May 30, 2004) Publisher: Greenwood Press ISBN: 0313324875

 

 Babita Taneja

Traditional Indian Curry in a Hurry: Time-sensitive Recipes for Authentic Home-cooked Dishes
Babita Taneja, Win Dulai Hardcover 160 pages (June 9, 2005) Publisher: Foulsham ISBN: 0572030959

 

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