Cooking With Kurma: More Great Vegetarian Dishes

by Kurma Dasa

Kurma's recipes celebrate the vast diversity of vegetarian dishes, from the many grains, beans, vegetables and fruits of the world to the countless combinations of herbs and spices. This is a stunning collection of outstanding vegetarian dishes, which will be released in conjuction with the new, 26 episode SBS series airing in March.

Genres: Cooking, Nonfiction, Vegetarian, Food, Cookbooks

244 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 1998

About the author

Born in England in 1952 Kurma dasa moved to Australia with his parents in 1964. In the early 1970s he became a member of the Hare Krishna movement and travelled India many times learning regional cuisines by assisting cooks in temples, restaurants and private homes. By 1980 Kurma dasa was head chef at Gopal’s Vegetarian Restaurant in Swanston Street , Melbourne , specialising in Vedic (traditional Indian) cooking. Producing 1,800 meals a week made Gopal’s one of Australia ’s best known vegetarian eating places. Since the mid 1980s Kurma dasa has been teaching widely. His 1987 television series Cooking with Kurma enjoyed great popularity, spawning the much re-issued Great Vegetarian Dishes. Kurma dasa has since hosted two television series screened in 46 countries . He currently lives in Melbourne with his family, writes and presents gourmet vegetarian master classes.

Reviews

[Nora · Rating 4 out of 5]

WAY over my head with this book. The spirit is willing but I just can't do these. Compplicated recipes. Everything is from scratch.

[Cherie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of an older style of vegetarian cookbooks, but def worth checking out.