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Chaat: Recipes from the Kitchens, Markets, and Railways of India by Maneet Chauhan and Jody Eddy
A book full of the wonderful flavours of the chaat dishes of India 
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A small booklet I downloaded off the web.
Food Memories of Migrant Women, by Mumbai Mobile Creches
Migrants in India are people who have moved from rural to urban areas, temporarily or permanently, looking for better opportunities and a more sustainable livelihood.
For example, India’s construction industry depends on migrant workers. The wives who accompany them are likely to work at the construction site or elsewhere. With migration, many of these women leave behind the secrets of their regional cuisine, carrying only the memories associated with their food with them.
This book captures a few recipes from those women, mainly yummy snacks and recipes you may not find in cookbooks.
This link will download the cookbook: http://mumbaimobilecreches.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/MMC-Cookbook.pdf
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Roots: The Definitive Compendium, by Diane Morgan
Not vegetarian but a lot of recipes without meat etc.
I love that it has recipes for unusual (at least here) roots like lotus root, taro, jicama, etc amongst the more common roots. Also some that I have never heard of, or heard of and never seen in shops. (I can get lotus root, taro and jicama at my local Asian shops.)
Cookbook browsing today.....
What cookbook is down from the shelves and being browsed at your place today? What are you planning to cook on the long weekend (#Australia)?
Today I am flicking through:
Salt Sugar Smoke: How to Preserve Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, and Fish by Diana Henry
A nice book to browse.
No ferments in the book, but oh lots of smoking hot chilli preserves, including lots of Thai-based pastes and chilli jams.
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PARTY!
A book released in the 1990's to aid the AIDS Council of Victoria, and bring joy to people in this frightening era.
"Not since angels first went horseback has there been such uninhibited celebration of the way we do the thing we all do best: get down and party! So pack away the curried prawns and aunty's pav with the organza memories of parties past - and welcome the turn of the millennium. Pages and pages of good looks, good people, good food and ninety or so highly entertaining recipes you'll need to heat up the action at your place. The people who put this cook book together did it for free - but they didn't do it for nothing."
I picked this up in a second hand shop a long time ago. I don't think I have cooked anything from the book, but it is a book of joy and delightful to browse the tiny finger foods of parties in the 1990's.
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Fermented Vegetables, 10th Anniversary Edition, by Kirsten Shockey.
An excellent addition to any fermentation book collection.... always a pleasure and inspiring to browse.
What cookbook will you be browsing this weekend?
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I have also been browsing #TheUdupiKitchen by #MalatiSrinivasan - I have cooked a number of dishes from this book, and all are marked "Divine!", "Gorgeous", "So good!" and similar. I hadn't realised that this was the case, until I started browsing through it.
Udupi is one of the food capitals of South India. It is not surprising that the recipes of a 95 yr old, recorded by her daughter as her mother writes them from memory, are fabulous. She wrote out 175 recipes, 100 of which appear in this book. I would have loved to have seen the other 75.
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The cookbooks that have really good recipes for my #NaturopathPrescribedDiet are all Ayurvedic cookbooks with simple, Indian dishes.
This one is included. Not all recipes are Ayurvedic in this book (she does have one focused solely on Ayurveda). And not all are Indian-style recipes. But they are all simple and good. And vegetarian.
Living Ahimsa Diet: Nourishing Love & Life, by Maya Tiwari
A good one to browse today and refocus life.
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Back to this favourite.
I am hoping to have Thali tonight, at the place that makes awesome kulcha. If I wasn't I'd probably be cooking from this book:
From Gujarat, With Love, by Vina Patel (#Vegetarian)
I've made several dishes from this book, and there are standouts. The chole. An eggplant chaat. The scrambled eggs that also work for scrambled tofu. Some of the dals.
Gujarati food is good food.
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Back to Udupi for some more deliciousness.
The Udupi Kitchen, by Malati Srinivasan
Recipes from one of the flavour capitals of South India
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This one too!
" Driven by a deep passion for creating extraordinary dishes that everyone can enjoy, chef Antonio Alderuccio has created Veganissimo, a cookbook that brings Italian cuisine to everyone. Whether you're vegan, gluten-free, or simply inspired by innovative cooking, Veganissimo is the ultimate Italian recipe book for you."
Ooooh look what is coming!
"A homage to Palestinian food and culture, Boustany, is the first solo cookbook from Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi co-founder and champion of Palestinian food and culture.
Boustany translates from Arabic as 'My Garden', and the down-to-earth, relaxed and plentiful recipes are reflective of Sami's signature style and approach to food. Bold, inspiring and ever-evolving, Boustany picks up where Falastin left off, with flavour-packed, colourful and simple vegetable- and grain-led dishes; this is how Sami grew up eating - platters of aubergine and chickpeas with a spicy green lemon sauce and fragrant lentil fatteh that always tasted better the next day. These are the dishes he has known, loved, cooked and shared with friends."
There are some lovely looking Indian cookbooks coming out this year.
Here are some that caught my eye - there are a lot more.
Mitahara looks very special - named after the 9th yama. Can't wait.
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A gift from a friend
The Mindful Kitchen: Vegetarian Cooking to Relate to Nature, by Heather Thomas
A sweet book, not often pulled from the shelves.
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I am back to this book
The Cooking of the Eastern Mediterranean: 215 Healthy, Vibrant, and Inspired Recipes, by Paula Wolfert
I have had this book for some years, and even cooked from it, but I have recently realised how wonderfully full of titbits of information it is. So a good read is deserved. Thanks to Paula for such a well researched book.
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Vibrant India: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes from Bangalore to Brooklyn, by #ChitraAgrawal
Another cookbook in the modern, non-traditional Indian food genre. Can I say that this one takes Indian food and twists the dishes to appeal to American tastes? Agrawal is 2nd gen Indian living in Brooklyn, and the book reads like that assimilation of both cultures that is common with 2nd generationals.
So the food is fresh and vibrant, with enough Indian to make it recognisably so, and enough American to make it comfortable for Indian food novices to cook and eat.
I love the Cabbage stir-fry with lemon and curry leaves - Indian cabbage dishes are the best way to treat cabbage imho 
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Hippie Lane, by Taline Gabrielian
Taline is a Sydney-based wholefoods promoter and business owner. See more about her here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-4318808/Hippie-Lane-founder-shares-grew-business.html.
A lovely whole foods book, some critical errors in the book (very poor proofreading) and the errata seems to have disappeared from the internet.
Still, there are a few recipes I like in this book.
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Another real favourite from my bookshelves.
Modern Preserving, by Kylee Newton
While I am dabbling in fermentation atm, it is pickling that has my heart. This book has such lovely modern pickles, vinegars, fruit cheeses, syrups, cordials, alcohols, chutneys, jams amd more (some fermentations). The most recent one I made was a daikon pickle with a sweet Japanese brine, which was outstanding! It went far too quickly.
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Which cookbook do you have down off your shelves today? Web site? Blog?
Today's book is The Mindful Kitchen, by Heather Thomas.
This book was a gift from a loved one. It is simple, basic food. A bit of a reminder to be stress-free in the kitchen.
Cookbook browsing today.... Part 1
Being a Lazy Day, I am browsing 2 cookbooks today.
The first one I got down from the shelves this morning because of a convo I had yesterday after I posted about the green almonds. I wanted to check some things. It is a book of Lebanese preserves.
#Mouneh, by Barbara Abdeni Massaad
This is the most beautiful of books, large, glossy, beautiful photos, full of stories of life in Lebanon, and full of recipes. I adore it, and it is beautiful to browse today and read more of the stories. They include personal stories of past strifes in Lebanon and how it impacted family life. There will be quality time spent with this book today.
You can tell I adore this book. They have another, #Manoushe, also excellent, but not quite as stunning as this book.
