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Melody of India Cuisine: Tasteful New Vegetarian Recipes Celebrating Soy and Tofu in Traditional Indian Foods

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Excellent book on Indian food. Too excellent in fact. My doctor ordered me to remove the book from the kitchen because I kept gaining weight from the recipes.

I was sort of dissappointed by this book. I thought that the recipes should have been nicer then they really was. I think that everything turned out a little bit dry, but I think that was my fault and not Mrs. Jains. The introduction to this book also left me confuesd. There is another Indian food author, Dalal something, she is better.

While I must admit to disliking Indian Food, this book goes a long way in changing my opinion. I am confused, however, to whom this book is targeted. On point of distress that I found about the recipes for this book was that they all tended to give me bouts of indigestion and gas. I suspect that this was due to the over use of soybeans. And when do soybeans get used in Indian food to begin with? See what I mean by confusion? That is why I rate this book a '6'. While the basic recipes are good, Manoj Jain tends to ramble on about soybeans. I don't care about soybeans when all I want is good food.

I am very dissappointed by this book. For some reason or other my lover gave me this book for Valentines Day. I tried out several recipes which were supposed to have aphrodesiac qualities. They didn't. I broke off the relationship with my lover at that point. I even stopped being vegetarian because of this book. I was severely dissappointed. I cried, and ate a rack of baby back ribs for the first time at my local Chili's. This book made me eat animal flesh!!