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A cookbook wherein the cultural concerns over wording miss the measurement question

Chetna's Indian Feasts by Chetna Makan

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If I had access to fresh curry leaves (and I don’t live within 100 miles of anywhere that’s likely to have them), I might be tempted to try most everything in Chetna’s Indian Feasts. Even though she didn’t win her season of Great British Bake Off, the author seems to have done pretty well in setting herself up in the food world. I know she’s done several cookbooks before this one; I might be tracking down one or two of those. Indian Feasts is as […]

Pride and Prejudice Meets Bollywood

Pride, Prejudice and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

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BINGO RED Let me start by saying that I love Jane Austen novels, and I especially love Pride and Prejudice. I love that book so much that I will read any remix of the novel, and I have read several. This has to be by far my favorite to date. First of all, I think I may have found a Mr. Darcy who is better than, or at least as good as, Colin Firth. And I don’t say that lightly because any P&P fan knows […]

Untested Triple-Threat-ish

Indian-ish by Priya Krishna

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Personal current rule: I am not allowed to start working through a new cookbook until I finish with the current one. I’m close, and should be able to start a new cookbook by about mid-June. That hasn’t stopped me from building up a small pile of potential successors, including Indian-ish. This means that I have read through the book, but not yet tried anything from it. This book is really three things at once: an introduction to Indian cooking (both in terms of ingredients and […]



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