World Food India

by Martin Hughes, Richard Delacy, Lonely Planet (Manufactured by)

Lush photography and tantalizing descriptions of local cuisine set these beautiful pocket guides apart from all of the other guides that pair food and travel. Each guide traces the unique cultural influences that helped shape the culinary traditions of the featured country, with fascinating sidebars on special ingredients and preparation techniques. The best feature of the World Food Guides is the fact that recipes are included, so you can try your hand at making Spanish romesco sauce, Moroccan bastila, or Vietnamese bahn xeo. You'll also find a food glossary, vivid photographs of ingredients and markets, tips and techniques, and much more.

Genres: Travel, India, Food

320 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2001

Reviews

[Tim · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is my third or fourth Lonely Planet World Food Guide, and I wish they were still in print so I could read still more of them. This is every bit as good as the others, and organized in much the same way - a readable mix of travelogue, history, tips, suggestions of places to visit, and recipes. The latter I appreciated, since they are usually things a Westerner could make at home with the right ingredients. When you're done reading one of these, you know you have been given an insightful introduction to a nation's cuisine - and having visited India at around the same time I read this book, I found it to be accurate (even thou it was published 13 years earlier) and useful.

[Brian · Rating 5 out of 5]

All of the books in this series are worth reading; there's just not a bad one in the batch. This and "Hong Kong" were the first two I picked up. More than guides, more than cookbooks, they're great, pocket-sized looks at the history and culture of how people eat. And the recepies are pretty good, too.

[Sarah Brandel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had trouble with this book. The author seemed to be trying harder to be cute/funny and relate anecdotes of his experience in India than to provide solid information.