My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional & Modern Parsi Home Cooking, Niloufer Ichaporia King

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My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking by Niloufer Ichaporia King

Print Length: 360 Pages
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: June 18, 2007
Language: English
ASIN: B01FGKXV9U
ISBN-10: 0520249607
ISBN-13: 978-0520249608
File Format: PDF

The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. These traits still find expression in the cooking of India’s rapidly dwindling Parsi population—descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia after the Sassanian empire fell to the invading Arabs. The first book published in the United States on Parsi food written by a Parsi, this beautiful volume includes 165 recipes and makes one of India’s most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners. In an intimate narrative rich with personal experience, the author leads readers into a world of new ideas, tastes, ingredients, and techniques, with a range of easy and seductive menus that will reassure neophytes and challenge explorers.

My favorite cookbook

I have personally cooked the majority of the recipes in this cookbook, so I feel I can write a review with some authority. Every single recipe I have used has turned out well. For me, that is a rarity – many other cookbooks seem not to have tested their recipes. Each one of the recipes in this book is carefully crafted.

This book is full of information about ingredients, recipes and cooking techniques. Going through each of the recipes has been an education for me and a tremendous pleasure for everyone who shares my dinner table. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Anyone who comes for dinner leaves saying “I must buy that book” – so should you.

There is a good mix of simple recipes for casual cooks and more involved recipes for cooks who want to challenge themselves and delight their guests. These are unique tastes – ones you are not likely to have encountered before, even in Indian restaurants.