Product Description

Calcutta's food is richly diverse. There's freshwater fish from the city's rivers, street food, recipes influenced by the British presence, sweets, extraordinary vegetarian dishes, and a rich variety of rice dishes. Simon Parkes explores the city's food culture, including its people, flavours, markets, traditions and restaurants, while Udit Sarkhel gives recipes for the city's finest dishes.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #162722 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-14
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 192 pages

About the Author
UDIT SARKHEL owns 4 London restaurants: Calcutta Notebook, Sarkhels Indian Cuisine (awarded a Bib Gourmand by Michelin and listed as among the best restaurants in Europe in America's Hardens and Zagat guides), Sarkhels of East Sheen and Dalchini. He consults for The Curry Club in Ibitha. He was recently classed one of the top 5 chefs in Britain by Waitrose Food Monthly. SIMON PARKES presents The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4, won the Glenfiddich Award for Radio 2004 for his programme Bombay Lunchboxes, writes for Waitrose Food Monthly and The Calcutta Telegraph, has regularly reviewed restaurants for Vogue, and is a former Michelin inspector JASON LOWE is an award-winning food photographer with a passion for India.

Customer Reviews

Chicken Tikka Masala Not
This is not quite your usual indian cook book and don't expect any of your Friday night curry house faves here. What it does is give you an insight into the social and eating habits of West Bengals intellectual elite. They're middle class, not to showy and very bright. Colours are vivid and you get a taste of the sensory overload that awaits you in Kolkata. You know when you arrived that it is the real capital of India.

The recipes are easy to follow and have the natural colour of authentic indian food and not the radioactive stuff with cream we get here.

Excellent
This is an excellent book and has some fantastic pictures of Calcutta.Credit is due to the authors for capturing tradtional food and pictures of Bengal