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5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious and superbly written. A must read.
I'm a foodie with a fascination with Indian food, going so far as two Indian cooking classes, and regular attempts to make my own roti and dal. I've also got a soft spot for the author, Hardeep Singh Kohli, so my review is likely to be slightly biased. I first encountered Kohli via the UK Celebrity MasterChef TV series. A quietly-spoken, colourful man with a...
Published 11 months ago by Finding Heroes
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Not for me
Abandoned after first few chapters. For me, he simply wasn't succeeding on any level. Not as memoir, not as travelogue, not as food journey. And I found the book's "hook" of going to India to cook British food for Indians to be completely pointless...confirmed after the first time he cooked for a restaurant staff at a five-star resort. It might have been a great story,...
Published 24 days ago by Jeffrey D. Kenyon
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2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Indian Takeaway (Paperback)
Abandoned after first few chapters. For me, he simply wasn't succeeding on any level. Not as memoir, not as travelogue, not as food journey. And I found the book's "hook" of going to India to cook British food for Indians to be completely pointless...confirmed after the first time he cooked for a restaurant staff at a five-star resort. It might have been a great story, but the telling was so dull and lackluster--as if even he couldn't see the point--that it made me give up on him as someone I wanted to follow on a journey.I think others may feel as I do...as I write this, used copies are down around $0.26, so people aren't hanging on to this book after they read it.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious and superbly written. A must read.,
This review is from: Indian Takeaway (Paperback)
I'm a foodie with a fascination with Indian food, going so far as two Indian cooking classes, and regular attempts to make my own roti and dal. I've also got a soft spot for the author, Hardeep Singh Kohli, so my review is likely to be slightly biased.
I first encountered Kohli via the UK Celebrity MasterChef TV series. A quietly-spoken, colourful man with a wicked self-deprecating humour, which comes across so well in this book. A Glaswegian Indian Sikh who feels he doesn't quite belong, goes searching for his identity in India, cooking (with various degrees of success) quintessential British food for those he meets. "But suddenly I am meek, compromising, and irresolute. I can't cook a plate of stovies in a five-star hotel for an internationally trained chef and his team. It would be mental. How could I possibly convey to them the myriad reasons for what is effectively a plate of carbohydrate-heavy brown sludge that tastes of comfort? I can't do it." p. 51 Similar to Julie & Julia365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen. |
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Indian Takeaway by Hardeep Singh Kohli (Paperback - July 2, 2009)
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