Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India Reaktion Books, November 2014 The second most populous country in the world after China and the seventh largest in area, India is unique among nations in its diversity of climates, languages, religions, tribes, customs and...
Curry: A Global History Saturday, 14 November 2009 18:00 Curry is one of the most widely used—and misused—terms in the culinary lexicon. Outside of India, the word curry is often used as a catchall to describe any Indian dish or Indian food in general, yet Indians...
Food Culture in India Thursday, 29 July 2004 “Not a cookbook but an invaluable source of the ‘why’ of Indian cooking is Colleen Taylor Sen’s Food Culture in India….Sen does an admirable job sketching out the history of India and its myriad food cultures. She...