Cooking of India

by Santha Rama Rau

Book Overview

Indian cookbook covers history and recipes. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809400693
• ISBN13: 9780809400690
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Silver Burdett Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Age Range: 11 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 6 and higher

Customer Reviews

Doesn't include the recipe booklet by default

A lot of the recipes in the book refer to a separate spiral-bound recipe booklet. This is part of the original product, but resellers don't necessarily agree with that, so they may or may not send you two books as part of this product. Having said that, the reason I got it is that I happened to sample a bunch of dishes from this book which were ostensibly made by following the recipes to the letter, and they turned out really well. Even discounting the skill of the cook, I thought it was worth getting. To test out the theory, I prepared one of the dishes right off the bat (a simple one though), and it came out pretty well, with nicely balanced flavor. It is good for principles of Indian cuisine. There's a section on Pakistani cuisine as well. It could be also be of historical interest for South Asians, given how the author traces the history of various ethnicities and their cuisine in India.