Go Ahead -- Make My Curry! [Paperback]

Sami Lalji (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2001

A cookbook that will feed your stomach and nourish your soul, Go Ahead --Make My Curry offers the best Indo-American cuisine this side of the ocean. Featuring the recipes of Sami Lalji's eponymous restaurant, such as Pappadum Crusted Salmon, Chilled Minted Mango and Fresh Ginger Soup, and Madagascar Butter Chicken, each dish is accompanied by beverage suggestions and personal reflections from one of Vancouver's most inspiring chefs. Colour photographs highlight these delicious recipes in their mouth-watering glory. Best of all, each dish in this collection is designed to feed thousands of people -- the sale of this cookbook will benefit the Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society, an organization committed to helping people by providing one of the basic needs for survival: food.

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About the Author

Sami Lalji has been passionate about feeding people all his life. As a child in Uganda, he would watch as his grandmother cooked for dignitaries, eventually becoming an integral part of the action in her kitchen. With such early training, it's no wonder he turned to the food industry when he immigrated to Canada in 1972.

In April 1993 Sami opened his own restaurant, Star Anise, which was named Restaurant of the Year by Vancouver Magazine for three years. In 1996, Gourmet Magazine rated Star Anise the number one restaurant in Canada. Encouraged by such positive response, Sami opened another Star Anise in San Antonio, Texas, which quickly became as popular as the Vancouver location.

In the summer of 1996, Sami travelled to India to learn about his ancestors and their traditions. Inspired by India's curries and spices, he returned to Vancouver and launched the first Sami's restaurant. Sami's was an instant success, serving over 2000 meals in its first month. There are now three Sami's restaurants in Vancouver.

Product Details

• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Whitecap Books (February 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1552852105
• ISBN-13: 978-1552852101
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,222,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Your Friends Will Think You Have a Real Indian Chef in the Kitchen, May 28, 2010

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Captain Katie (Long Beach, CA and the Sunny Caribbean) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Go Ahead -- Make My Curry! (Paperback)

Go Ahead -- Make My Curry is one of my favorite cookbooks and I have scores of Indian cookbooks, as I'm sort of a gourmet chef. I wrote a cooking column for a sailing magazine for a couple years and one of my favorite articles was my "Two Ways to Tandoori" which you can read in one of my "Amazon So You'd Like to Guides," if you want. Tandoori chicken is just delicious. Anyway, while I was making the guide, I listed fifty cookbooks from my collection. I have more. I know, I know, one would think a couple books would be enough, but it's sort of an obsession with me, making food taste great and I just love to see how others have done it.

While I was doing the guide, I pulled out all my Indian Cookbooks, had them all stacked around me. Then I decided to pull out all the ones I didn't think I could live without. It came to an even dozen and Go Ahead -- Make My Curry was one of the books. The recipes are just divine. I've never been to India, been a lot of places, but never there. Delhi, Bombay, Ganges, names that just ring with adventure. I imagine I'm there every time I cook up something Indian. I can feel the smells as they wrap their delicious flavors all around the kitchen, or galley, if I'm cooking on board the sailboat my husband Dub and I live on half the year. You won't go wrong with this book. Check it out. Check out my other eleven too. Cook up something from India tonight, taste the adventure.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars New Indian Cuisine, October 18, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Go Ahead -- Make My Curry! (Paperback)

For those who are afraid of Indian Cuisine this is a great book. Sam has a wonderful restaurant in Vancouver, BC that puts a different spin on Indian Cuisine that would appeal to everyone. This book gives you a chance to make it yourself. Impress your friends and family by making them something from this book and you're bound to get rave reviews. I've made many of the recipes and they are fabulous. There are some flaws as there are times the ingrediant listed could require clarification. For example one recipe calls for 6 star anise but doesn't mention fresh or dried) An experienced cook would know that it's dried but still I had to think it over for a minute.