Demystifying the art of Indian cooking while presenting its age old recipes and flavours in new and simple ways for the modern home cook, Qmin's 120 flavour-filled recipes will bring India to life in your kitchen.

This reference work covers the cuisine and foodways of India in all their diversity and complexity, including regions, personalities, street foods, communities and topics that have been often neglected. The book starts with an overview essay situating the Great Indian Table in relation to its geography, history and agriculture, followed by alphabetically organized entries. The entries, which are between 150 and 1,500 words long, combine facts with history, anecdotes, and legends. They are supplemented by longer entries on key topics such as regional cuisines, spice mixtures, food and medicine, rites of passages, cooking methods, rice, sweets, tea, drinks (alcoholic and soft) and the Indian diaspora. This comprehensive volume illuminates contemporary Indian cooking and cuisine in tradition and practice.

A comprehensive, one stop shop for Indian cookery, combining an easy to follow format with a step-by-step guide to all your favourite traditional Indian dishes. The influence of Indian food has been far-reaching and with 85 mouthwatering recipes for beginners as well as accomplished cooks, this book will be your go to guide toIndian cuisine. Richly spiced with colourful, personal anecdotes and curious historical facts, and attractively designed with full colour illustrations to every recipe, this is an essential book for any food lover.

The Food of India contains a selection of over 80 delectable recipes, with dishes from Hindu Tamil Nadu, Christian Kerala as well as tandoori favorites from the Punjab. Striking color photographs and detailed information make this the perfect introduction to the rich and diverse world of Indian cuisine.

From dal to samosas, paneer to vindaloo, dosa to naan, Indian food is diverse and wide-ranging-unsurprising when you consider India's incredible range of climates, languages, religions, tribes, and customs. Its cuisine differs from north to south, yet what is it that makes Indian food recognizably Indian, and how did it get that way? To answer those questions, Colleen Taylor Sen examines the diet of the Indian subcontinent for thousands of years, describing the country's cuisine in the context of its religious, moral, social, and philosophical development. Exploring the ancient indigenous plants such as lentils, eggplants, and peppers that are central to the Indian diet, Sen depicts the country's agricultural bounty and the fascination it has long held for foreign visitors. She illuminates how India's place at the center of a vast network of land and sea trade routes led it to become a conduit for plants, dishes, and cooking techniques to and from the rest of the world. She shows the influence of the British and Portuguese during the colonial period, and she addresses India's dietary prescriptions and proscriptions, the origins of vegetarianism, its culinary borrowings and innovations, and the links between diet, health, and medicine. She also offers a taste of Indian cooking itself--especially its use of spices, from chili pepper, cardamom, and cumin to turmeric, ginger, and coriander--and outlines how the country's cuisine varies throughout its many regions. Lavishly illustrated with one hundred images, Feasts and Fasts is a mouthwatering tour of Indian food full of fascinating anecdotes and delicious recipes that will have readers devouring its pages.