Interesting memoir
Pros: It's always interesting to read about life in a different culture.
Cons: The book was pleasant, but not brilliant.
Pros: It's always interesting to read about life in a different culture.
Cons: The book was pleasant, but not brilliant.

Pros: A great book lots of great recipes and some beautiful colour pictures, a great gift idea.
Cons: A little too big to use in the kitchen, a hybrid travel/cook/picture book.
This extraordinary cookbook, Classic Indian Cooking, amounts to a complete course in Indian cuisine. Elucidated by over 100 line drawings, it systematically introduces the properties of all the basic spices and special ingredients of Indian food, then explains the techniques employed in using them, always with the help of comparisons to familiar Western methods.It is immediately obvious that...
“ I have always loved Indian food but like many who have never travelled to india itself i have often wondered how authentic the Indian food i have eaten actually is. This book has convinced me of one thing to truly learn about Indian food you have to go to India. Indian food is so diverse and complex that many visits are needed to get your head around this marvellous cuisine. That is...” --Waynus
“This is a memoir of growing up in India with recipes. I read it several years ago, and remember enjoying it, but at this remove the only part that stuck in my mind is her story of being in college in the united states and visiting a friends house for thanksgiving. She offered to help out and was given the job of basting the turkey, which grossed her out as a lifelong vegetarian.” --Fleurdesel
Malaysian Cooking introduces the art of using Malaysia's most aromatic cooking ingredients to prepare food with wonderful fragrances to excite both the palate and sense of smell. Since three quarters of what we taste comes from smell, the aromas produced by our food are vitally important to the enjoyment that comes from eating. Inspired by fond memories of fragrant cooking from her...