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Summary: Quite authentic
Review: The photographs in this cookbook will make you hungry just looking at them. There are all sorts of real classic dishes in here - like the Sambar and Kootu recipes. Some of the recipes call for dairy products like yogurt or cream but I just replace it with soy yogurt or soy cream and they turn out just fine. The ingredients are all very traditional - using fenugreek, mustard seeds, etc. Some spices I've had trouble finding are things like ash gourd so I've had to leave it out but its still tasty. There are also great rice recipes in here - mango rice, coconut rice, etc. The recipes are pretty straightforward but sometimes include some extra steps like pureeing.
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Summary: Overdesigned
Review: There's plenty of full-color "food porn," but the overdesigned text--several different type styles within each recipe, with the ingredients list in illegible italics--and small typeface make this cookbook difficult to read and use. Some pages have white type on top of the color photo, which is really annoying. The recipes look good, though a majority of them require curry leaves, which are impossible to get fresh unless you live in an area with an Indian grocery or want to pay an exorbitant price to have them shipped.
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Summary: very useful
Review: This book is a treat and is long overdue. A must for anyone (like me) who enjoys south Indian food and/or cooking. South Indian food is highly undiscovered but the fact is, it is very healthy and very tasty. It uses a lot of vegetables, lentils and uses very little oil. I wish Chandra Padmanabhan would write a follow-up which deals with the specialized items in south Indian cooking e.g., murukku, thattai etc. I would recommend this book to everyone who enjoys good food!
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Summary: Excellent cookbook for South Indian Vegetarian cooking
Review: This book is a very highly recommended cookbook
for dishes from South India, especially Tamil Nadu
although there are dishes from Karnataka and Kerala. You can really get a glimpse of the variety of South Indian cooking from this book. South Indian cooking largely takes a backseat to North Indian cooking in restaurants except for Idlis and Dosas. This book has good variety, glossary of ingredients and also suggestions for alternatives for various ingredients. Good photos and print too.
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Summary: Excellent cookbook for South Indian Vegetarian cooking
Review: This book is a very highly recommended cookbookfor dishes from South India, especially Tamil Nadualthough there are dishes from Karnataka and Kerala. You can really get a glimpse of the variety of South Indian cooking from this book. South Indian cooking largely takes a backseat to North Indian cooking in restaurants except for Idlis and Dosas. This book has good variety, glossary of ingredients and also suggestions for alternatives for various ingredients. Good photos and print too.
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Summary: One of the best south Indian Vegetarian cookbooks
Review: This Book is one of the best south indian vegetarian cook book ever !!
Being a south Indian myself , i can vouch for the authencity of the recipes.....they taste exactly like mom's cooking !!!! The pictures are just gorgeous ! The only drawback , as I see it, is the lack of nutritional information.
But, most of the dishes are well balanced .
It is an absolute visual treat.Another good book is Meenakshi ammal's " cook and see" , which is considered to be a classic like the "joy of cooking" series, but i dont think its available in US as yet.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: This is an excellent book that shows authentic south Indian receipes.
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Summary: Wonderful introduction to South Indian cooking
Review: This is the most worn Indian cooking book I own. I am not Indian but my husband is from Bangalore. He says the recipes from this book taste better and more authentic than his mom's recipes. His relatives are flabbergasted when they come to visit and I can cook them meals that taste/look as though they are right out of their own kitchens. Several people have bought the book after eating the recipes I cooked from it. If you must buy any book on South Indian cooking, certainly buy this one first. My only gripe is that Padmanabhan never specifies the amount of salt to be used. With most recipes this is ok but some of them can't be tasted until they're completely cooked and it is too late...such as idli's etc. However, this book is excellent value for the money and sets such a good foundation with the basics of tempering and masala pastes that you will soon be experimenting with your own ingredients/variations.
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Summary: Making South Indian cooking easy
Review: This lavishly photographed book is devoted to South Indian vegetarian cooking. The recipes use exotic Indian spices and are quite easy to make, even for the novice cooks. The chefs at Recipedelights.com feel that this book takes out the mystery from the traditional cooking of the South. A must for any "South Indophile".
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Summary: It is one of the best cookery books ever written.
Review: Well if there were more stars I think one can award this book with more stars. All the delicacies are explicitly written & the pictures are very tempting & fabulous. I accidently discovered this book in the Minneapolis library & consider myself very lucky indeed.It is a piece of good work by the author.
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