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The India Cookbook is the first definitive guide to the rich and varied cooking of India, featuring 1,000 recipes from every region, all completely updated for the modern kitchen. The book’s author, Pushpesh Pant, a celebrated Indian food expert and cookbook author, spent two decades searching every corner of India collecting authentic family recipes to complete this incredible collection.

This book is beautifully designed with colorful cover art, inspired by traditional Indian rice bags and packaged in an actual bag stamped with an image of the book. The India Cookbook also features original recipes from some of world’s most celebrated Indian chefs including: Suvir Saran (Devi, New York) and Vikram Jij (Vij’s, Vancouver).

Pushpesh Pant is India’s authority on Indian food and culture, having traveled throughout the country’s gastronomic regions for more than 20 years searching for the best and most authentic Indian recipes. From well-known restaurants to rural home kitchens, Pant’s search was as thorough as can be in a country claiming the second largest populace in the world. Keeping in mind the Western chef, Pant has included simple substitutes for ingredients difficult to find outside of India.

This book is a virtual journey, bringing home cooks accessibility to the delicate kebobs that are the specialty of the imperial cities of Agra and Delhi, the spicy meats of Bengal, and the flavorful saags of Punjab. From color and texture to how food is prepared, Pant fully explores the culinary pleasures of India. In India Cookbook Pant also reveals the basics of Indian cuisine, and explains the fascinating history of Indian food culture including the traditional system of Ayurveda, based on the belief that all foods have different properties and a direct effect on our health and mental well-being.

Inspired by diversity of people, landscape, and culture Indian food has been cultivated over thousands of years, creating one of the most intriguingly delicious cuisines on the planet. India Cookbook demystifies Indian cooking for the Western cook, and covers every type of dish, celebrating the colors, flavors and textures of this fascinating cuisine.