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The New Curry Bible: The Ultimate Modern Curry House Recipe Book (Curry Club)

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My wife bought this book about a year ago and now we don't really go out for curries any more because these are sooo good. It's true that you do need access to the proper ingredients but it's well worth the effort.

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Mike

I have many other Pat Chapman books. This one is very good but not her best. I wish the book had multiple weights, her other books had more ounces. I brought a gram scale to use this this book. I like the obvious advantage of making your spice mixtures ahead. Her recipes are alway precise and easy to follow. She also gives you clear directions, like blending the onions to puree and cooking until the oil comes out. You don't get these details in most books. I bought two books, one for me and another as a gift. I found myself having to explain details to the friend I gave the second book to, and I had to buy her a gram scale. But as I told her, once you work with her recipes you will really know how to cook restaurant curries. I liked the fact that she puts a traditiional indian recipe then a restaurant recipe so you can cook traditional or restaurant style. All in all I am really glad I purchased the books.

We have Chapman's older book, the Balti book which we have been using for 10 years maybe. We though it was time to update and whilst the pictures and layout are greatly improved, there are basically the same recipes...so a bit of a disappointment there.

I was really excited to get this book but unfortunately I was not very impressed with it's recipes. All the recipes were in metric which is not a big deal because it is not hard to convert. Some of the ingredients I have never heard of though and doubt that I could get them in an American grocery store. Besides that, the actual recipes themselves didn't really seem to be all that great anyways. I ordered 660 Curries along with this book which I highly recommend. All the recipes in that book look great and the author explains things very well along with having a sense of humor. I will be returning the Curry Bible to Amazon.