No one knows Indian food and cooking like Madhur Jaffrey.
Now, in Vegetarian India: A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking, the seven-time James Beard Award–winning author shares the delectable, healthful, vegetable- and grain-based foods enjoyed around the Indian subcontinent.
Madhur Jaffrey, is an Indian-born actress, food and travel writer, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing Indian cuisine to the Americas with her debut cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973).
She is also known as “the godmother of Indian cooking.” For over forty years, her cookbooks have introduced the West to the vibrant cuisine of her homeland. Growing up in a wealthy, cosmopolitan family in Delhi, Jaffrey was raised on a diet typical to many northern Hindus, featuring produce they grew themselves: potatoes, onions, carrots, okra, eggplants, cauliflowers, cabbages, kohlrabi, peas, and tomatoes.
Vegetarian cooking is a way of life for more than 300 million Indians. . or more than forty years, the “godmother of Indian cooking” (The Independent on Sunday) has introduced Western home cooks to the vibrant cuisines of her homeland.
With more than two hundred recipes, beautifully illustrated throughout, and including personal photographs from Jaffrey’s own travels, Vegetarian India is a kitchen essential for vegetable enthusiasts and home cooks everywhere
