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My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking
Niloufer Ichaporia King
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Description for My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking
Hardback. The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. This book includes 165 recipes and makes one of India's most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners. It presents various ideas, tastes, ingredients, and techniques with various menus. Num Pages: 360 pages, 8 b/w photographs, 50 line illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; WBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 187 x 29. Weight in Grams: 854. Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking. 355 pages, Illustrations, map. The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. This book includes 165 recipes and makes one of India's most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners. It presents various ideas, tastes, ingredients, and techniques with various menus. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1FKA; WBN. Dimension: 236 x 187 x 29. Weight: 854.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
355
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520249608
SKU
V9780520249608
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About Niloufer Ichaporia King
Niloufer Ichaporia King is an independent scholar.
Reviews for My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking
"King could do for Indian cooking in America what Alice Waters and company did for the food of southern France." San Francisco Magazine "Essential reading for anyone to understand Parsi culture and cuisine... She evokes the passion to cook." The Art Of Eating Niloufer Ichaporia King's intimate tone, wit, and personal stories make us feel as if we're right next ... Read more