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 | The Food of India | |
 | "India -- The Menu is Huge & so is this book!" | 2009-01-06 |
| India is geographically and culturally enormous. The only country that is comparable gastronomically is China. The first problem for someone writing a cookbook about India is the selection of the national and regional segments of Indian cuisine that will be featured. For example, there must be at least one hundred ways to prepare cauliflower Indian-style. On Pages 180 and 183, we get two of those methods. That is two out of a hundred -- and they better be good! Well, in this book, the selection is superb -- both cauliflower recipes are terrific, and that holds for practically all the other selections as well. Don't buy this book expecting an encyclopedic approach -- this is a cookbook that takes a measured approach but that samples a huge variety of regional delights. I really appreciate the pictures in this book. They justify the size and cumbersomeness of the book because they add so much for a person who lives outside of India and has visited only a few times. I hardly ever get to see most of these dishes. I would have appreciated a few pictures of the preparation process as well. However, writing about Indian cuisine for a non-Indian audience places a special demand on the producers of the book to make the food look attractive so that those unfamiliar with it will buy the book and cook the food. If you are wise and flush enough to buy this book, I am sure you will cook the food. And you will be very glad you did. Accurate, attractive, authoritative, and, most of all, delicious. | ||
 | New Mexico's Continental Divide Trail: The Official Guide | |
| "The most beautiful " | 2008-10-03 |
| The CDT segments in New Mexico (28 of them by Julyan's parsing) are among the loneliest but most beautiful anywhere. If you are doing the entire CDT, you will probably start in New Mexico's bootheel and travel northward. I highly recommend this guide as it will get you from point to point better than any other method. The conditions in some parts of the "trail" in New Mexico are as difficult at the other reviewers state, and Julyan gives good advice on navigating these sections. If you are doing local sections of the CDT, all the more reason to get this book and tear it into sections for easy carrying. Julyan gives you all you need to know concerning how to access the various segments of the trail. My recommendation: buy a good GPS first and learn how to use it; then buy this book. | ||
 | DARWINS BLACK BOX: THE BIOCHEMICAL CHALLENGE TO EVOLUTION | |
| "Behe and his critics both miss the crucial point" | 2007-06-14 |
| Behe has done us all a great service by raising the issue of irreducible complexity. He has also done us all a great service by carrying the analysis of the claims of evolution to the micro level where they belong. He fails to take the final step, however, of examining the question of irreducible complexity at the DNA level where the forms that he claims are irreducibly complex are generated. It is at least possible that a simple change in a DNA molecule can produce a seeming irreducible complexity in the form that derives from that segment of the DNA. In other words, we cannot assume the warrant of Behe's argument that irreducible complexity in final form implies irreducible complexity at the molecular level. I believe that Behe's argument for irreducible complexity will be found to be sound mathematically and molecularly when we come to a clearer understanding of the process by which DNA produces form. The very complexity of that process is an argument for Behe and against Darwinian evolutionary theory or any other theory that posits random mutation as the source of gross major changes in organisms. A lot of biologists want to criticize Behe and his arguments with the ad hominem attack that Behe is no biologist. "Leave the biology to the biologists," they seem to be saying. Well, it all comes down to mathematics. So, would all of you biologists who are not experts in mathematics please sit down and listen to the mathematicians. | ||
 | Twinings Irish Breakfast Loose Leaf Tea | |
| "A great morning tea from Twining" | 2006-03-07 |
| Irish blend from Twining has a pleasing crisp taste, just a bit spicy, fragrant and hearty, not so robust as a Kenya, but much more than a gentle Darjeeling. If you have tried Twining's English Breakfast blend, you should expect this Irish Breakfast blend to be stronger and more complex in flavor, but with similar brewing properties. You can buy Irish Breakfast blend either in teabags or as loose bulk tea. I strongly recommend the latter for greater flexibility, but the bags taste just as good -- no flavor that I can detect from the paper that Twining uses. Twining produces some excellent teas, none better than this fine blend. It has my strongest recommendation. It is also available as a decaffeinated tea, with very much the same delightful taste. | ||
 | The Way to Cook | |
| "If the foundation is strong, the cooking will be good" | 2005-12-24 |
| This is the best foundational book on how to cook well. There are other books that offer more encyclopedic coverage of the details of cooking a range of foods. There are other books that give insight to specific culinary traditions. And there are a few that try to present foundational cooking strategies. But none match this book for equipping any cook, novice or experienced, with systematic, proven techniques for producing excellent food from quality ingredients. The specific recipes are slanted toward European style dishes and meals. But don't let that specialization obscure the rich insight into fundamentals. How to make a sauce, how to prepare the bird or the roast, how to handle vegetables -- what to do and what to avoid. Variations on a basic theme. The book is rich with all of these. If I were just beginning as a cook, this is the first book I would want and the only book I would need. I have more experience than that now -- but this is still the best resource available when I want to get back to basics and retool my cooking sensibilities. | ||
 | The Way to Cook | |
| "If the foundation is strong, the cooking will be good" | 2005-12-24 |
| This is the best foundational book on how to cook well. There are other books that offer more encyclopedic coverage of the details of cooking a range of foods. There are other books that give insight to specific culinary traditions. And there are a few that try to present foundational cooking strategies. But none match this book for equipping any cook, novice or experienced, with systematic, proven techniques for producing excellent food from quality ingredients. The specific recipes are slanted toward European style dishes and meals. But don't let that specialization obscure the rich insight into fundamentals. How to make a sauce, how to prepare the bird or the roast, how to handle vegetables -- what to do and what to avoid. Variations on a basic theme. The book is rich with all of these. If I were just beginning as a cook, this is the first book I would want and the only book I would need. I have more experience than that now -- but this is still the best resource available when I want to get back to basics and retool my cooking sensibilities. | ||
 | Summer in Baden-Baden | |
| "*** Two novelists a century apart on different vectors" | 2005-01-08 |
| Leonid Tsypkin was a research physician with an amazing gift for creating beautiful streams of words. His novel Summer in Baden-Baden is about compulsion -- his own compulsion to understand Fyodor Dostoevsky and Dostoevsky's compulsion to gamble. Both men sacrifice much to feed their compulsions. Tsypkin imagines an aging Dostoevsky bereft of most of his creative powers, but still trying to live the life of a Russian literary giant. Dostoevsky travels with his young wife first to Berlin and then to Baden-Baden. Along the way, Tsypkin spares us none of Dostoevsky's refined prejudices. Ironically, Dostoevsky has a pronounced prejudice against Jews, and Tsypkin is a Jew. Dostoevsky also has a prejudice against Germans, yet he and his wife travel to Germany for respite from their financial and familial obligations in Russia. Some of Tsypkin's most beautiful prose is devoted to private scenes between Dostoevsky and his wife. A subtheme of the novel is Dostoevsky's compulsive infatuation with his wife, and the love-making scenes are movingly limned. As an imagined biography of Dostoevsky, the book conveys a useful outline of the his life. Details, accompanied by photographs, provide the reader with firm reference points. Always hovering in the background for those who have read them are Dostoevsky's great novels. We can all regret that Leonid Tsypkin wrote so little. His style is unique. Some sentences run to a page or more, but they are captivating and fresh. It is hard to imagine the personal discipline, the personal compulsion to write, that must have been Tsypkin's. His life in Soviet Russia was so bounded, so fragile, so lacking in personal space. How did he do it? We can only shake our heads and wonder and be glad. By all means, get this book and read it. If you have never read one of Dostoevsky's novels, read one first -- I recommend either The Idiot or Crime & Punishment as an introduction to Dostoevsky. | ||
 | Travels in West Africa (National Geographic Adventure Classics) | |
| "*** A light in darkest Africa, circa 1893" | 2004-12-22 |
| In 1893 Mary Kingsley, a single Victorian woman, traveled alone to Africa. The sources of her interest in Africa are obscure. Possibly the tales her father brought back to England of his extensive travels lie at the root of her own interest. In any case her account of her travels in west and west-central Africa are a remarkable addition to our knowledge of the region during the early years of the colonial period. Kingsley wrote with a very outward focus. We hear little of her inner feelings, her comfort or lack thereof. Rather, she is consumed with a desire to know the land and its human and natural inhabitants. We begin to taste the real flavor of Kingsley's experience in Chapter 2 in her account of the island of Fernando Po and its prominent people group, the Bubis. She then voyages down the coast, describing the lonely beauty of the great mangrove swamps that border the Bight of Benin. Kingsley developed great respect, admiration, and even affection for the traders, black and white, whom she met in her journey. She traveled in their company and relied on them in what would otherwise have been impossible circumstances. Her views of other white colonials were less sanguine. She expressed mixed feelings about white missionaries, acknowledging the uplifting effects of their moral teaching while disdaining their confusion of cultural with spiritual messages. One of Kingsley's central adventures was her trip from the Ogowe River to the Rembwe River. On this journey, she visited a series of villages each of which was reputed to be more dangerous and depraved than the one before. Her accounts of her lodging in these places are priceless. The difficulties of traveling through swamps and jungles, and across the great rivers of this region, were daunting. Kingsley's accounts of her determination to master the piloting of the native canoes are both funny and insightful. It took a lot for anyone to travel overland, and her perseverance marked her grit, her commitment to finish what she started. The last third of the book consists of three long chapters on fetish customs. Although she lacks a systematic view of the role of fetishes and other spiritual tokens in the cultures she met, her depiction of their impact on everyday life and on funeral customs is enlightening. She delves into the afterlife beliefs of the peoples she encountered; in many of these cultures today, the beliefs she relates are still expressed in a form of syncretistic Christianity. This edition of Kingsley's travel accounts is an abridgement of a much longer, multi-volume original that does not seem to be in print today. Since Kingsley herself prepared the abridgement, we can read it with confidence that it expresses both the details as she recorded them and the priority events or images that best characterize her travel experiences. Gabon, Cameroon, and the areas around them continue today to rank among the wildest, best preserved areas of Africa, both naturally and anthropologically. Whether you visit these regions or not, there is no better introduction to them than these accounts by a Victorian original. | ||
 | Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley, ISBN 0486424901 | |
| "*** A light in darkest Africa, circa 1893" | 2004-12-21 |
| In 1893 Mary Kingsley, a single Victorian woman, traveled alone to Africa. The sources of her interest in Africa are obscure. Possibly the tales her father brought back to England of his extensive travels lie at the root of her own interest. In any case her account of her travels in west and west-central Africa are a remarkable addition to our knowledge of the region during the early years of the colonial period. Kingsley wrote with a very outward focus. We hear little of her inner feelings, her comfort or lack thereof. Rather, she is consumed with a desire to know the land and its human and natural inhabitants. We begin to taste the real flavor of Kingsley's experience in Chapter 2 in her account of the island of Fernando Po and its prominent people group, the Bubis. She then voyages down the coast, describing the lonely beauty of the great mangrove swamps that border the Bight of Benin. Kingsley developed great respect, admiration, and even affection for the traders, black and white, whom she met in her journey. She traveled in their company and relied on them in what would otherwise have been impossible circumstances. Her views of other white colonials were less sanguine. She expressed mixed feelings about white missionaries, acknowledging the uplifting effects of their moral teaching while disdaining their confusion of cultural with spiritual messages. One of Kingsley's central adventures was her trip from the Ogowe River to the Rembwe River. On this journey, she visited a series of villages each of which was reputed to be more dangerous and depraved than the one before. Her accounts of her lodging in these places are priceless. The difficulties of traveling through swamps and jungles, and across the great rivers of this region, were daunting. Kingsley's accounts of her determination to master the piloting of the native canoes are both funny and insightful. It took a lot for anyone to travel overland, and her perseverance marked her grit, her commitment to finish what she started. The last third of the book consists of three long chapters on fetish customs. Although she lacks a systematic view of the role of fetishes and other spiritual tokens in the cultures she met, her depiction of their impact on everyday life and on funeral customs is enlightening. She delves into the afterlife beliefs of the peoples she encountered; in many of these cultures today, the beliefs she relates are still expressed in a form of syncretistic Christianity. This edition of Kingsley's travel accounts is an abridgement of a much longer, multi-volume original that does not seem to be in print today. Since Kingsley herself prepared the abridgement, we can read it with confidence that it expresses both the details as she recorded them and the priority events or images that best characterize her travel experiences. Gabon, Cameroon, and the areas around them continue today to rank among the wildest, best preserved areas of Africa, both naturally and anthropologically. Whether you visit these regions or not, there is no better introduction to them than these accounts by a Victorian original. | ||
 | The Impossibility of God | |
 | "If the book were as hilarious as some of these reviews ..." | 2004-12-14 |
| If the book were as hilarious as some of these reviews, we would have a comic classic on our hands. It is not. What God would or would not do if God really existed? Oh, please. Here is the general form of the arguments the book gives for the non-existence of God. If God exists, then He would do X. Not X. Therefore, God does not exist. What these guys are really saying is this: "If I were GOD, then I would do X. Not X. Therefore, ..." Well, if you ask me, the correct conclusion is: "Therefore, I am NOT GOD." I agree -- they are NOT GOD. Who is writing this stuff? Even more serious, who is publishing this stuff? Even more serious, are these people really reading this stuff? | ||
 | Algorithms from P to Np: Design and Efficiency (Algorithms from P to Np) | |
| "Still the best of the lot" | 2004-04-21 |
| Even though it is more than ten years old now, Moret & Shapiro is still the best book available on NP completeness and related topics. In a way I disagree with other reveiwers who advise that only graduate students read this book. It all depends. I have known a number of graduate students who might not have understood this material as well as some undergraduate students. It is not so much a matter of college level as it is your personal tools for dealing with abstraction and complexity. | ||
 | PalmOne Tungsten T3 Handheld | |
| "Do not buy this junk from this unreliable company" | 2004-04-07 |
| After one week the screen doesn't work, the back plate is loose, and the nice Indian gentlemen who answer your calls tell you that PalmOne will not give you a new Tungsten T3 to replace the lemon you received from them. The concept of this handheld is wonderful, but the shoddy manufacture and the stiff arm from the manufacturer make this an utterly unacceptable alternative. Not only would I recommend that you steer clear of the T3, but I also recommend that you steer clear of PalmOne. Their name should be PalmNothing. | ||
 | Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive | |
| "Eldredge's Message -- Not Just for Men" | 2003-09-04 |
| John Eldredge gives us his clearest presentation yet of the concept that life in Christ has always been intended to be a love adventure. His examples from the lives of friends and fellow believers give concreteness to this book. I would like to see a more thorough scriptural explication. Eldredge's ideas are closely related to John Piper's theme of living a life of joy in the amazing goodness of God. Eldredge takes the same concept to a more personal, day-to-day application level. Get this book and read it. You will be glad you did. | ||
 | Jonathan Edwards: A Life | |
| "Belief produces values produce behavior" | 2003-07-10 |
| A notable addition to the biographic genre, this work by George Marsden makes the faith, thought, and life of Jonathan Edwards accessible to the modern reader. Marsden based his biography on Edwards' faith life first and foremost. One could even call this a biography of Edwards' beliefs, but there is plenty of detail also on his family life, his ministry, and his extensive network of relationships with theological colleagues in New England and Great Britain. Marsden places his analysis firmly in the context of the first half of the 18th Century. The frontier conflict with France and its implications for British relations with the various Indian nations are cases in point. Marsden weaves a gripping immediacy to the growing conflict into his account of Edwards' missions ministry in Stockbridge. Marsden's horizon, however, stretches into the 21st Century. He has been careful to seed his work with anchors for those who wish to trace Edwards' influence into our present day. Marsden's notes are exemplary -- accurate, concise, and informative. This biography is on the study path of anyone who wants to understand Edwards in his 18th Century context and in our 21st Century context. Start here. | ||
 | Breathless | |
 | "Irritating, but ..." | 2003-01-13 |
| This movie gets very irritating after a time. True, Jean Seberg is stunning in her portrayal of a young woman without roots whose survival instincts are finely honed. True, there are attractive moments in Godard's cinema verite style. But the situations are so boring and the lead male character so vacuous that it is hard not to get irritated. One reviewer praised Godard for spending a half hour with the couple lounging around in her bed. Boring, boring, and finally, irritating. Try the 400 Blows -- similar style but a really interesting, even gripping, story. | ||
 | New Testament Greek Manuscripts - Romans | |
| "It all starts with the raw data ..." | 2002-10-02 |
| Reuben Swanson and Bruce Metzger have done a great service to every person interested in the raw data behind the New Testament you read every day. The raw data are the texts of the earliest versions we have of the New Testament. What this series of books provides is a side-by-side comparison of the various versions, all appropriately keyed to the versions, and all appropriately keyed to our modern chapter and verse numbering. At a glance, you can see whether the variations you are scrutinizing are examples of a major split between the earlier Alexandrian versions and the later so-called Majority Text, or if perhaps the variations are randomly sprinkled among the early texts. This book meets the New Testament literally where the pen met the parchment. As I have used these volumes, I have often felt that I was closer to the copying cell -- the texts became more than peculiar ciphers. When I later had the opportunity to examine the Codex Vaticanus copy in the library at Dallas Theological Seminary, I felt that being inside the text through these volumes made the experience much more exciting. Highly recommended if data is your game and the New Testament is a foundation of your life. | ||
 | Johann Sebastian Bach ,Masaaki Suzuki ,Peter Kooy ,Yumiko Kurisu ,Akira Tachikawa ,Masaaki Suzuki ,Yumiko Kurisu ,Peter Kooy ,Bach Collegium Japan - Bach: Cantatas Vol. 1 /Suzuki, Bach Collegium Japan | |
| "Stunningly beautiful beginning" | 2002-07-26 |
| This CD is a stunningly beautiful beginning to what promises to be a very special traversal of the complete Bach cantata repertoire. Bach is the most spiritual of the best-known composers, and, together with the masses and motets, the cantatas are Bach's most spiritual pieces. Suzuki has assembled an awesome cast of performers. The soloists on this CD are more than adequate, and the male solos are sung with exceptional beauty. These three cantatas barely scratch the surface of the repertoire, but they present Suzuki with the opportunity to showcase the capabilities of his team. His interpretations properly capture the solemnity of BWV#4, an early Bach piece on the theme "Christ lag in Todesbanden". Suzuki is careful to let the complexity and beauty of the music overwhelm us, and not present an overinflated sound. If I could put two words to the effect, I would call the sound "lean" but "vibrant". Suzuki is to Bach cantatas what champagne is to wine. I have enjoyed the Koopman set so far also, but I prefer the spirituality that Suzuki brings to this music. This first volume is really extraordinary. | ||
 | Chocolat | |
 | "Director Again Demolishes Strawman" | 2002-07-03 |
| What could have been a cute, enjoyable movie is reduced to ashes by the obvious stereotypes and the silly slapstick posturing. Let's see -- Roman Catholicism is bad, so let's create a caricature of it to demolish; fathers are bad, so let's create a wonderful Mom-only family to raise a little girl; neighbors are bad and strangers are good, so let's create some unpleasant neighbors (wife-beater) and some attractive strangers; moderation and self-control are bad, so let's cast our best actress as an out-of-control diabetic on a binge. How silly!! | ||
 | Exegetical Fallacies | |
 | "More fun than any serious book should be" | 2002-02-14 |
| I don't have a lot to add to what has already been written about this wonderful book. D.A.Carson has given us some wonderful insights. By all means read and apply in your own exegetical projects the critical principles he lays out here. If you want to have some real academic fun, read this book a second time and nail Carson on his own fallacious thinking -- his examples are full of fallacies of the type he alerts us to. This is not a complaint nor indeed a criticism of the man and his thought. We all do it!! When you finish this book, by all means, read his book on the gender controversy in Bible translation (The Inclusive Language Debate, ISBN 080105835X). Very balanced, very insightful. | ||
 | The Game of Kings (Lymond Chronicles, 1) | |
| "Irresistible, especially if you get the Dunnett encyclopedia" | 2001-12-19 |
| If you like long, fascinating reads, and if you are willing to work at your reading, and if intellectual challenges excite and delight you, then this book is your portal to literary ecstasy. It is everything historical fiction should be: it is fiction, which allows the author to create bigger than life characters (and Francis Crawford of Lymond certainly is that), it demands that the author place the story firmly into its historical context (which Dorothy Dunnett does better than just about anyone I have read), and it illuminates the history of the setting from the inside out. I personally am not terribly interested in 16th Century English-Scottish history, but I found Dunnett's characters irresistible. For those who want to understand the archaic allusions and obscure historical references, spend(from Amazon, of course) on Elspeth Morrison's book The Dorothy Dunnett Companion (ISBN 0375725873), a veritable encyclopedia of Dunnett's historical novels. Everything you need to know to understand the difficult passages and quotations is in Morrison's book, and it is all indexed in a way that provides easy reference. Reading The Game of Kings is not entertaining in the way that a television show or a romance or mystery novel is entertaining. You had better bring something of yourself to the reading of this book; if you do, you will be delighted. | ||
 | Modern Roses XI : The World Encyclopedia of Roses | |
| "The ultimate reference work on roses" | 2001-09-05 |
| If you love roses and if you want to know about the full range of rose varieties that you may encounter at your local nursery or in mail order catalogues, this volume is essential. The expense is justified in part by the CD-ROM, which gives you the ability to search the underlying database at will. I enjoyed the pictures (although they don't match other works like Botannica) as well as the articles on famous European rose gardens. In any work of this magnitude there are bound to be errors (e.g., Meilland's Michelangelo is yellow, not pink), but the overall accuracy is very impressive. If you are only dabbling in rose growing, this encyclopedic work is probably more than you need. But if you are crazy about roses, you will be crazy about this book. | ||
 | Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (With CD-ROM) | |
| "Comprehensive introduction -- authoritative but accessible" | 2001-09-05 |
| As a relative newcomer to the Microsoft SQL Server world, I have been very impressed with this introduction. I cannot comment on whether or not this SQL Server 2000 edition adds enough to the SQL Server 7.0 version to justify purchasing it if you already own the older edition, as I have never seen the earlier one. I found Delaney's discourse easy to follow, thorough, well-organized, and altogether the best introduction I have found. By all means, supplement this book with more specialized works on Transact SQL or DTS, but start here. The CD-ROM contains a 90-day evaluation version of SQL Server 2000, so with this book you can be up and running the software as you learn from the text. Definitely a best buy. | ||
 | Botanica's Roses: The Encyclopedia of Roses | |
| "Before you buy a shovel or pruning shears ..." | 2001-07-25 |
| ... buy this book. It was extremely helpful to us as we planned and planted a large rose garden from scratch this spring. The pictures are superior to those you will find in most catalogs. The descriptions, while maddeningly inconsistent in the information they provide, give an independent check to the glowing descriptions that catalogs use to promote rose purchases. Some roses are less desirable -- less robust, less fragrant, less orderly in their growth -- than others. This book will help you more than any other book we have found to make an initial pass through the catalogs and concentrate on roses likely to fit your needs. There is no substitute for the experience and advice of local growers and nurseries who have grown roses in your area, but this book will prepare you to inquire and process information from those sources efficiently. If we could own only one rose book, this would be the book. | ||
 | Unbreakable (Vista Series) | |
| "Through a lens darkly" | 2001-07-11 |
| What a wonderful premise -- a superhero among us, one who cannot be hurt provided he avoids his personal "kryptonite". The story of his self-discovery, Unbreakable begins with great promise. But the film's ambience is so dark, so unrelieved of foreboding and anxiety, that even a momentary ray of sunshine near the end cannot relieve the dark feelings that the movie creates within us. Then, there is the ending -- the darkness becomes ... well, I guess you ought to see the movie, but I recommend that you rent the DVD before you commit to purchasing a copy. This movie is a true work of art, but there are some works of art that I don't particularly want to display permanently in my home. | ||
 | John Adams: A Life | |
| "Understanding him better, liking him less" | 2001-02-14 |
| Comprehensive in his scope and compelling in his interpretation of this most complex figure among the Founding Fathers, John Ferling has delivered a first rate biography that will stand as definitive for a very long time. As I finished the book, I found myself liking John Adams less but understanding the man and his times much better. Adams comes across as brilliant but irascible and aloof. He suffered long periods of loneliness brought on by his driving ambition and his exaggerated work ethic. When called upon to make strategic decisions, however, Adams consistently chose well. Ferling gives us a balanced view that never loses sight of the full scope of Adams's life. I appreciated Ferling's care to avoid stating his own judgments on matters where he personally disagrees with Adams's view -- a discipline which broke down only on the question of whether humans are fallen creatures redeemed by good institutions or exalted creatures debased by evil institutions. Adams would have chosen the first alternative, but Ferling is at times adamant in his defense of the second. | ||
 | A Taste of India | |
| "The best book on India food for home and for travel" | 1999-01-31 |
| Whether you are going to India or staying home and cooking Indian, this book is a must. The insights into the concepts of Indian food preparation are clear and accessible to the western reader. The recipes are efficiently presented, and the selection of recipes takes one to the heart of Indian regional cuisines very quickly. We found this book valuable as a preparation for travel in India, as well as for home use. We have looked and tried several Indian cooking books -- this one is the best. | ||
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