Vegetarian India ─ A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking

More than 200 delicious, healthy, easy-to-follow vegetarian home recipes, from the internationally acclaimed authority on Indian food.

Since the publication of her first book, An Invitation to Indian Cooking, more than forty years ago, Madhur Jaffrey has been the preeminent authority on Indian home cooking in America. In this new cookbook, she takes readers on a journey across her homeland, revealing the food that real Indians eat at home. Eschewing the meat-based curries that have gained popularity in the West, she introduces readers to the more traditional, healthier, yet no less delicious vegetarian dishes that Indians enjoy every day. With more than 200 delectable new recipes--beautifully illustrated with lush, full-color photographs--this remarkable new book is sure to reshape the way we think about, and cook, Indian food.

MADHUR JAFFREY is the author of numerous cookbooks, including the classicAn Invitation to Indian Cooking, Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking,and Madhur Jaffrey's Taste of the Far East, which was voted Best International Cookbook and Book of the Year in 1994 by the James Beard Foundation. She is also an award-winning actress with numerous major motion pictures to her credit. In 2006 she published her memoir, Climbing the Mango Trees. She lives in New York City.