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Summary: On my list of the Best Cookbooks of All Time
Review: I am a cookbook collector, and although I have over 500 cookbooks, my ideal is to find the one perfect book in each genre or ethnicity. In my experience, many of the best cookbooks of all time were written by cooking teachers who not only have a superb palate and unfaltering quest for the authentic, but also who have spent a lifetime perfecting the communication of a technique or recipe to students. This book is "it" in Indian cooking.
Julie Sahni may not cover every region of India in this book, but what she includes is mind-blowingly delicious, with precise, clear instructions, like "put the spices in little piles by the stove."
Her book is authentic, it is clear, it is accurate, and if you open it to any page and make the recipe as written, you will be delighted with the result.
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Summary: The true taste of Authentic Indian Cooking
Review: I am a true fan of Indian cooking. I have found many recipes throughout the internet, in books and on television, but I have yet to find recipes as wonderful as found in this book. When I first started Indian cooking, everything was confusing, especially the spices. This book not only explains all the spices, utensils and methods, but it puts them together in a way that makes me feel like I have touched India.
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Summary: Questions for Owners of this Book
Review: I am thinking about buying this book for my father, but I have two questions for those who own it: 1. Are the measurements in ounces and grams, or in cups and pounds? 2. Does the book have pictures (preferably full color)? A posted answer would be much appreciated.
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Summary: A MUST-OWN CLASSIC FOR ALL INDIAN FOOD LOVERS
Review: I bought 'Classic Indian Cooking' and the companion 'Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking' based on a review my wife read at RecipeDelights.com. My wife is a North Indian and I love India food therefore we cook Indian on a regular basis for us and our three small children. We love this book - the background information, explanations and recipes. I cannot remember how many recipes we have already cooked from this book which have since become part of our daily meal. We love the spinach lamb, pea pilaf, chicken tikka, vindaloo, mulugatawni soup, roast lamb with mint, Cornish hens with apricots and biriyanis and pilafs. Ms Sahni is a natural teacher and a gifted writer. Her ability to convey the cooking and baking techniques and build flavors through spices is amazing. We follow Sahni's detailed instructions and bake with confidence really good 'authentic' chapatis, pooris and cook all varieties of Indian food. Just thinking about it gets me salivating. This book is absolutely indispensable if you are interested in learning Indian cooking that produce delicious results every time. RecipeDelights.com thank you for bringing so much pleasure into our lives.
If you must buy just one Indian cookbook, I strongly suggest getting 'Classic Indian Cooking'.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: I bought this book after reading its review on my favorite recipe site- RecipeDelights.com. And true to expectation, I have found this book incredibly useful. I am an Indian and I can tell you that the dishes came out exactly the way they taste in authentic Indian restaurants.
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Summary: Clearly overrated
Review: I bought this book after reading its review, they were all so wonderful. I love Indian food. I love to cook and I have been in India several times. I got this book hoping it would give me an easily available reference, but I have had the book for over a year now and I have not made a single dish from it. It's not attractive, there are no color pictures and lack structure of any sort; However, other books such as "Indian, deliciously authentic dishes" by Shehzad Husain & Rafi Fernandez and Madhur Jaffrey's books give a far deeper view of Indian cooking. This book is very basic and I'd say that on average the level of difficulty for most recipes is not worth the effort. I would never recommend this book!
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Summary: Excellent intro to Indian cuisine
Review: I bought this book in college as a way of being able to enjoy 'exotic' food without having to go all the way down to 6th Street in Manhattan to get it. I have now made just about everything that is in this book, and have even impressed Indian friends with the authenticity of my output. Since those days I have expanded my cooking repertoire considerably, and have acquired many other cookbooks, but this is still among the most used in my collection. You won't go wrong.
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Summary: Great food
Review: I bought this cook book because I like to both eat and cook food that is good and good for you. I have had it for a short time and everything I have tried has been excellent. Not only is the taste of the food great, the food is also appealing to the eye. Two things to note (actually this applies to cooking pretty much anything, but is especially important here and with chinese foods), read the recipe all the way through before you start to cook and make sure you have all the ingredients ready before you turn the heat on.
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Summary: Good Stuff, no, GREAT STUFF
Review: I can't get enough of the food this book shows you how to cook.
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Summary: Fantastic.
Review: I disagree with the comment that this book is not for beginners. I've bought many Indian books before, and FINALLY here is someone to explain things I didn't understand. It makes sense to me now. Julie Sahni somehow is able to anticipate all of my questions and mistakes. I can use the other cookbooks now more easily since she has explained what many of them just assumed I knew.
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