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My Bombay Kitchen

Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking
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My Bombay Kitchen by Niloufer Ichaporia King offers a delightful journey into Parsi cuisine, blending flavours from India and Persia. The book is a rich tapestry of recipes, cultural anecdotes, and culinary history, reflecting the author's love for her heritage. It serves as both a cookbook and a narrative of family traditions, inviting readers to explore the vibrant world of Parsi cooking.
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If you have a passion for vibrant, aromatic flavours and an interest in the rich culinary traditions of Parsi cuisine, this book will delight you. It masterfully blends personal storytelling with traditional recipes, offering both a personal journey and a cultural exploration of Bombay's diverse food landscape.

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My Bombay Kitchen

The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. This book includes 165 recipes and makes one of India's most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners. It presents various ideas, tastes, ingredients, and techniques with various menus.

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Winner, 2008 James Beard Foundation Book Award in Asian Cooking

The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. These traits still find expression in the cooking of India's rapidly dwindling Parsi population—descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia after the Sassanian empire fell to the invading Arabs.

The first book published in the United States on Parsi food written by a Parsi, this beautiful volume includes 165 recipes and makes one of India's most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners.

In an intimate narrative rich with personal experience, the author leads readers into a world of new ideas, tastes, ingredients, and techniques, with a range of easy and seductive menus that will reassure neophytes and challenge explorers.

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My Bombay Kitchen is celebrated for its potential to transform American perceptions of Indian cuisine, akin to how Alice Waters influenced American views on French cuisine. It is praised as essential for understanding Parsi culture and food, with King's personal anecdotes and humour making readers feel deeply connected to her culinary journey.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520249608

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 18 June 2007

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 8 b-w photographs, 50 line illustrations, 1 map

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Alice Waters
  • Foreword by Alice Waters

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 862g

Pages: 360

About the Author

Niloufer Ichaporia King is an independent scholar.

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