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Chef Samin Nosrat’s Top Ten Favorite Books for Vulture
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.

ISBN-13: 9780520249608

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: University of California Press

Publication Date: 06-18-2007

Pages: 360

Product Dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

Niloufer Ichaporia King is an independent scholar.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"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 to her.—Chow

Niloufer Ichaporia King's intimate tone, wit, and personal stories make us feel as if we're right next to her.—Chow

Table of Contents

foreword by alice waters / ix
acknowledgments / xiii


Kitchens, Equipment, and the Basics 27
Beginnings 49
Soups 73
Eggs 83
Fish and Seafood 93
Meat and Poultry 111
Rice and Dal 161
Vegetables 185
Salads 211
Chutneys, Pickles, and Relishes 221
Sweets and Desserts 241
Drinks 269
menus / 281

glossary / 289
sources / 315
further reading / 317
index / 323