National and regional cuisine Books

Book SynopsisThe “queen of Indian cooking” (Saveur) and seven-time James Beard Award–winning author shares the delectable, healthful, vegetable- and grain-based foods enjoyed around the Indian subcontinent.“The world’s best-known ambassador of Indian cuisine travels the subcontinent to showcase the vast diversity of vegetarian dishes. Best of all: She makes them doable for the Western cook.” —The Washington Post Vegetarian cooking is a way of life for more than 300 million Indians. Jaffrey travels from north to south, and from the Arabian Sea to the Bay of Bengal, collecting recipes for the very tastiest dishes along the way. She visits the homes and businesses of shopkeepers, writers, designers, farmers, doctors, weavers, and more, gathering their stories and uncovering the secrets of their most delicious family specialties. From a sweet, sour, hot, salty Kodava Mushroom Curry with Coconut originating in the fo

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Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This cookbook has 101 delicious recipes for home chefs of all abilities.My name is Alton Brown, and I wrote this book. It’s my first in a few years because I’ve been a little busy with TV stuff and interwebs stuff and live stage show stuff. Sure, I’ve been cooking, but it’s been mostly to feed myself and people in my immediate vicinity—which is really what a cook is supposed to do, right? Well, one day I was sitting around trying to organize my recipes, and I realized that I should put them into a personal collection. One thing led to another, and here’s EveryDayCook. There’s still plenty of science and hopefully some humor in here (my agent says that’s my “wheelhouse”), but unlike in my other books, a lot of attention went into the photos, which were all taken on my iPhone (take that, Instagram) and are suitable for framing. As for the recipes, which are

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Book SynopsisRao's is the legendary, tiny corner restaurant in East Harlem where it's impossible to book a table: each of the red-checked, cloth-covered four-, six-, and two-tops is reserved for a titan of New York industry, a celebrity, or a major politician. Permanently. Now Frank Pellegrino, the third generation of his family to operate the impossible-to-get-into Rao's restaurant in East Harlem and founder of Rao's food products line, goes deep into the history of his family, the restaurant, and America's love affair with Southern Italian cooking to create Rao's biggest, best Italian cookbook yet.This complete cookbook's 140+ recipes include:- Linguini Aglio Olio- Lobster Fra Diavolo- Eggplant Parmigiana- Margherita Pizza alla Rao''s- Veal Chops Paillard- Beef Braciola- Stuffed Italian Frying Peppers- Blood Orange and Limoncello Panna Cotta

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Book SynopsisDemystifies classic French culinary technique for regular people who love food. In this book, the author tells her story and that of the food-world greats - including Julia Child, James Beard, Simone Beck, Craig Claiborne, Richard Olney - who changed how the world eats and who made cooking fun.

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Book SynopsisThe best Indian food is cooked (and eaten) at home.Real Indian food is fresh, simple, and packed with flavor. In Made In India, Meera Sodha introduces you to the food she grew up eating every day. Unlike the fare you get at your local Indian takeout joint, her food is vibrant and surprisingly quick and easy to make.Meera serves up a feast of over 130 delicious recipes collected from three generations of her family. On the menu is everything from hot chapatis to street food (chili paneer; beet and feta samosas), fragrant curries (spinach and salmon, or perfect cinnamon lamb curry) to colorful side dishes (pomegranate and mint raita; kachumbar salad), and mouthwatering desserts (mango, lime, and passion fruit jello; pistachio and saffron kulfi). Made In India will change the way you cook, eat, and think about Indian food forever.

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Book SynopsisContemporary Lebanese recipes from the host of PBS shows Cooking with Julie Taboulie and the Julie Taboulie's Lebanese Kitchen. Since she was six years old, Julie Ann Sageer (nicknamed Julie Taboulie by her close-knit family) has had a passion for cooking the meals of her Lebanese heritage. Just like in her Emmy-nominated cooking show Cooking with Julie Taboulie, each of her recipes comes with hands-on instructions, tips, and tricks for making homemade Middle Eastern dishes using heaps of fresh, seasonal ingredients. Here you'll find dishes that range from classics like falafel, shawarma, and (of course) taboulie, to warming Bazillaa stew of tomato, green pea, and lambto honey and rosewater-infused desserts. In these 125 recipes, you'll learn how easy it is to make such Lebanese staples as fresh labneh (strained yogurt) and how to put together your own delicious, multi-purpose spice mixes. In addition to the delicious meat and chicken dishes, Le

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Book SynopsisNaz Deravian lays out the multi-hued canvas of a Persian meal, with 100 recipes adapted to a home kitchen and interspersed with Naz's celebrated essays exploring the idea of home.

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Book SynopsisWholesome, authentic Greek cuisine from Diane Kochilas's table to yours.

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