Feast of India: A Legacy of Recipes and Fables [Paperback]

Rani (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1991

"Traditional curries and kabobs, pilao and dals--some 150 in all.... What differentiates this from the standard compendiums is Rani's nod to the past and the present." --Booklist

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Product Details

• Paperback: 262 pages
• Publisher: Contemporary Books; 1 edition (April 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0809240955
• ISBN-13: 978-0809240951
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #695,519 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The incomparable Rani, April 18, 2000

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Steve Murdock - See all my reviews

This review is from: Feast of India: A Legacy of Recipes and Fables (Paperback)

I have been using Indian recipes for years, and this is quite simply the most USEABLE collection of Indian recipes I have yet encountered. Every recipe works, and works the first time, and can work for any decent cook, and for the most part with easily available ingredients.

The recipes cover a wide enough assortment of styles to suggest the breadth of Indian cookery. The stories and anecdotes that accompany the recipes, while very interesting in and of themselves, also serve to place the recipes in context -- for instance, the way multiple spices in a dish should blend together.

A wonderful book and one of my most-used. I, and my dinner companions, have taken to referring to the author as "the incomparable Rani."

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, July 17, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Feast of India: A Legacy of Recipes and Fables (Paperback)

"Feast of India" is overlooked and underrated. There are no photos and not as much information about cooking technique as some other books have, but this book has the best selection of recipes that I've found. Rani's roots are in Andhra Pradesh which results in more southern Indian influence than you get in most general Indian cookbooks. I also own several Indian cookbooks including "Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking", Sahni's "Classic Indian Cooking", "Curried Favors" by Maya Kaimal MacMillan, "Dakshin" by Padmanabhan and a few others I like less than those, but if I could only have one it would be "Feast of India."

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book, April 15, 2003

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This review is from: Feast of India: A Legacy of Recipes and Fables (Paperback)

I have tried some(6) of the recipes and they are pretty good so far. It seems also that the recipes are accurate in there ingred.I read some of the indian books(at borders) before I went with this one. Deepak Chopra put his 2-cents in also.