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Go Ahead -- Make My Curry!

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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.

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.