My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520249608)

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Winner, 2008 James Beard Foundation Book Award in Asian Cooking

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.

Author: Niloufer Ichaporia King
ISBN-10: 0520249607
ISBN-13: 9780520249608
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2007
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.88lbs
Size: 9.26h x 7.58w x 1.17d
Award: James Beard Foundation Book Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/2007 pg. 90
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2007 pg. 74