Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking: The Comprehensive Guide from the World's Best-Selling Indian Cook

Chef magazine called this book's author "the best-known ambassador of Indian food in the United States"...and the referred to her as "the renowned author and actress who teaches home cooks about the sophistication and infinite diversity of Indian fare." The New York Times described her simply and succinctly as "the Indian cuisine authority."

For many years a best-selling cookbook, Madhur Jaffrey's seminal title on Indian cuisine now has been totally revised, redesigned, enlarged, and enhanced with 70 brand-new full-color photos. With chapters on meat, poultry, fish, and vegetables, as well as pulses, relishes, chutneys, and pickles, the author guides her readers through the delicious and colorful range of Indian food.

More than 100 detailed recipes direct home chefs through step-by-step preparation of well-known classics like Tandoori-style Chicken and Naan Bread, as well as more unusual dishes including Salmon Steamed with Mustard Seeds and Tomato and Drunken Orange Slices. Ms. Jaffrey also presents comprehensive background information on spices and seasonings, kitchen equipment, authentic preparation techniques, and suggested menus. Taste-tempting color photos show prepared dishes.

"[A] lovely, clear writer, whose essays and headnotes in the new edition elevate the recipes and make the exotic seem simple to prepare." Town & Country

Madhur Jaffrey, "the Indian cuisine authority," actress, and owner of New York City's Dawat restaurant, is totally revised, redesigned, enlarged, and enhanced with 70 new photos and more than 100 detailed recipes. New information on spices and seasonings, kitchen equipment, and suggested menus has been added.

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The essential reference book on Indian cooking

The "Boston Herald has called Madhur Jaffrey "the renowned author and actress [who] teaches home cooks about the sophistication and infinite diversity of Indian fare."

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From Madhur Jaffrey, world authority on Indian food, comes a new edition of her seminal cookbook, "Indian Cooking, which has sold over 750,000 copies since it was first published two decades ago. This classic book--now updated with new recipes and culinary information and enhanced with brand-new color photography--remains the definitive cookbook for a new generation of lovers of Indian food. With chapters on meat, poultry, fish, vegetables, accompaniments, pulses, relishes, chutneys, and pickles, Madhur guides you through the delicious and colorful range of Indian food. Her recipes include classics like "Rogan Josh, Tandoori-style Chicken, and "Naan Bread, as well as more unusual dishes such as "Salmon Steamed with Mustard Seeds and "Tomato and Drunken Orange Slices.

Complete with comprehensive background information on spices and seasoning, equipment, authentic preparation techniques, and suggested menus, Madhur Jaffrey's "Indian Cooking brings you Indian food at its best.

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Madhur Jaffrey is a highly respected writer on Indian, Far Eastern, and vegetarian cuisine. A prolific author, she has written 15 cookbooks, including the best-selling "Flavors of India. She contributes food and restaurant advice regularly to international magazines and newspapers. Madhur has hosted several television series of her own, is a successful author and illustrator of children's books, and an award-winning film and theater actress.She lives in New York, where she acts as food consultant for midtown Manhattan's Dawat Restaurant, considered by many to be the best Indian restaurant in the city.

"Chef" magazine called this book's author "the best-known ambassador of Indian food in the United States." For many years a bestselling cookbook, this seminal title on Indian cuisine now has been totally revised, redesigned, enlarged, and enhanced with 70 brand-new full-color photos.

Madhur Jaffrey is a well-known and internationally respected writer on Indian, Far Eastern, and vegetarian cuisine, and the author of several cookbooks. She has hosted a cooking series on BBC television, and is an award-winning actress, having appeared both in film and on stage. She lives in New York.