My Bombay kitchen : traditional and modern Parsi home cooking
Niloufer Ichaporia King (Author), Alice Waters
"The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and a never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. This trait still finds expression in the cooking of India's Parsis -- descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia after the Sassanian empire fell to the invading Arabs. The first book on Parsi food written by a Parsi to be published in the United States, this beautiful volume includes over 165 recipes and makes one of India's most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners. In an intimate narrative rich with personal experience, Niloufer King leads readers into a world of new ideas, tastes, ingredients, and techniques, with a range of easy and seductive menus that will both reassure neophytes and challenge explorers."-- taken from book jacket front flap
Print Book, English, ©2007
University of California Press, Berkeley, California, ©2007