Feast of India

by Rani

"Traditional curries and kabobs, pilao and dals--some 150 in all.... What differentiates this from the standard compendiums is Rani's nod to the past and the present." --Booklist This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809240955
• ISBN13: 9780809240951
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Iris

I love this book. Every time I have guests over and am serving Indian food I make at least 1 recipe from this book. I own about a dozen Indian cookbooks and this is the one I always recomend. I just recently lost this book due to lending it out. LOL. She loves this book as well. The recipes are very user friendly and are not too dificult even for beginers. I seldomly write "reviews" but, the fact that I am willing to buy this book twice speaks volumes about it. The selling point for me was that it actually had the recipes for the curry blends. I think toasting the spices and grinding them yourself is better than a store brand curry. And there are recipes for homemade paneer to use in other dishes. The book uses recipes within recipes. So if homemade from scratch isn't your style this may be too advanced. On the other hand if you truely love Indian food and are not lazy this is a perfect book.

A Most Useful Indian Cookbook

The operative word here is "useful." While it does not have detailed pictures, the recipes are easy to follow. And the results are tasty indeed! Throw in a few stories and this book is a gem!

Good Book

I have tried some(6) of the recipes and they are pretty good so far. It seems also that the recipes are accurate in there ingred.I read some of the indian books(at borders) before I went with this one. Deepak Chopra put his 2-cents in also.

Excellent

"Feast of India" is overlooked and underrated. There are no photos and not as much information about cooking technique as some other books have, but this book has the best selection of recipes that I've found. Rani's roots are in Andhra Pradesh which results in more southern Indian influence than you get in most general Indian cookbooks. I also own several Indian cookbooks including "Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking", Sahni's "Classic Indian Cooking", "Curried Favors" by Maya Kaimal MacMillan, "Dakshin" by Padmanabhan and a few others I like less than those, but if I could only have one it would be "Feast of India."

The incomparable Rani

I have been using Indian recipes for years, and this is quite simply the most USEABLE collection of Indian recipes I have yet encountered. Every recipe works, and works the first time, and can work for any decent cook, and for the most part with easily available ingredients.The recipes cover a wide enough assortment of styles to suggest the breadth of Indian cookery. The stories and anecdotes that accompany the recipes, while very interesting in and of themselves, also serve to place the recipes in context -- for instance, the way multiple spices in a dish should blend together.A wonderful book and one of my most-used. I, and my dinner companions, have taken to referring to the author as "the incomparable Rani."