Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels through the Great Subcontinent
by Jeffrey Alford (Author), Naomi Duguid (Author)
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For this companion volume to the award-winning Hot Sour Salty Sweet, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid travel west from Southeast Asia to that vast landmass the colonial British called the Indian Subcontinent. It includes not just India, but extends north to Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal and as far south as Sri Lanka, the island nation so devastated by the recent tsunami. For people who love food and cooking, this vast region is a source of infinite variety and eye-opening flavors. Home show more cooks discover the Tibetan-influenced food of Nepal, the Southeast Asian tastes of Sri Lanka, the central Asian grilled meats and clay-oven breads of the northwest frontier, the vegetarian cooking of the Hindus of southern India and of the Jain people of Gujarat. It was just twenty years ago that cooks began to understand the relationships between the multifaceted cuisines of the Mediterranean; now we can begin to do the same with the foods of the Subcontinent. show lessTags
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Mango and Curry Leaves offers not only a visual and culinary feast, but also with its well researched information about the subcontinent and its people and the couple's evocatively written memories of their travels in India a literary one as well. The photography, especially of the people, is superb, at times poignant. The dishes I have had so far from the book are sumptuous. The book is a favorite source of recipes for when my friends and I get together for an Indian meal.
Mango and Curry Leaves offers not only a visual and culinary feast, but also with its well researched information about the subcontinent and its people and the couple's evocatively written memories of their travels in India a literary one as well. The photography, especially of the people, is superb, at times poignant. The dishes I have had so far from the book are sumptuous. The book is a favorite source of recipes for when my friends and I get together for an Indian meal.
Mango and Curry Leaves offers not only a visual and culinary feast, but also with its well researched information about the subcontinent and its people and the couple's evocatively written memories of their travels in India a literary one as well. The photography, especially of the people, is superb, at times poignant. The dishes I have had so far from the book are sumptuous. The book is a favorite source of recipes for when my friends and I get together for an Indian meal.
roams 7 countries of the Indian subcontinent: Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and athe island nations of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Sprinkled among the 200-some recipes are dozens of good travelers' tales - stories about being offered the last few mangoes from a South Indian family's ancestral tree, shortly before it was to be cut down; about campingon a beach in Sri Lanka on the night when electricity arrived and made the drinks cold; about discovering their toddler deep-frying breads in boiling oil in a Calcutta kiotchen.
I bought this book about a year ago after seeing its favorable review in the New Yorker. I ignored it for months. Then, when I had a chunk of free time, I began cooking my way through it. It's wonderful! Now I am forever going to IKEA to get more glass jars for ingredients.
This is a beautiful coffee table book with recipes, photography and travel commentary. Gorgeous.
Our favorite cookbook right now!
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Jeffrey Alford is a cook, writer, photographer, and great traveler. His first book, Flatbreads and Flavors: A Baker's Atlas, was the 1996 James Beard Cookbook of the Year and the IACO/Julia Childs Best First Book. Seductions of Rice, his second book, was Cuisine Canada's Cookbook of the year. His articles and photographs appear frequently in Food show more & Wine, Gourmet, and Fine Cooking magazines. He lives in Toronto with his two sons. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Naomi Duguid is a cook, writer, photographer, and great traveler. Her first book, Flatbreads and Flavors: A Baker's Atlas, was the 1996 James Beard Cookbook of the Year and the IACO/Julia Childs Best First Book. Seductions of Rice, her second book, was Cuisine Canada's Cookbook of the year. Her articles and photographs appear frequently in Food & show more Wine, Gourmet, and Fine Cooking magazines. She lives in Toronto with his two sons. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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