A Taste of India

I bought this book right after college, when I wanted to make a serious effort to learn to cook Indian food. Excellent choice! Jaffrey provides short essays on Indian food and ingredients, and explains everything very well. All cookbooks should be so well written. She provides everything needed for complete Indian dinners, and beautiful photography is throughout the book. A complete novice as well as somebody experienced with cooking Indian dishes would benefit from this book.

The detailed instructions make it easy to make the recipes, and they are delicious. Some of the techniques I learned from this cookbook, like sauteing thinly sliced onions until brown, are ones I now use over and over again in my cooking, whether I'm making a recipe from this book or not. The recipes are arranged in sections according to what part of India they are from, and each section is introduced with a short travelogue essay. Also, gorgeous photos. I've given this book as a gift more than once.

Gorgeous photographs & great recipes, but not as indispensable as her basic 'Indian Cookery'

A delightful book of the cuisine of India - with beautiful photographs - great memories of an Indian Journey

Who knew that so much Indian food is fried?

Madhur Jaffrey's A Taste of India has become the definitive Indian cookbook.