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About this item
Highlights
- Gourmand WorldCookbook Award winnerp>"My copy of The Kerala Kitchen has notes scribbled in it and has saffron stains on certain pages.
- Author(s): Lathika George
- 262 Pages
- Cooking + Food + Wine, Regional & Ethnic
Description
Book Synopsis
Gourmand World
Cookbook Award winner
this unique cookbook-memoir transports readers to Kerala, a verdant,
tropical state on the Malabar Coast of South India.
Since ancient times, seafarers
and traders have been drawn by the lure of spices to Kerala. Saint Thomas
also traveled this spice route, converting several Brahmin families who later
intermarried with Syrians who had settled here; thus was born the vibrant
Syrian Christian community of Kerala. Today, ayurvedic massage resorts and
backwater cruises make this scenic land a top tourist destination, and spices
still draw both travelers and gourmands to its rich culinary heritage. It is
this legacy that The Kerala
Kitchen brings us, through more than 170 recipes and the stories
that accompany them.
Authentic
and easy to prepare, these recipes are adapted for the North American kitchen,
and accompanied by a guide to spices, herbs, and equipment, as well as a
glossary of food terms. Interwoven between these recipes, in the best
tradition of the cookbook memoir, are tales of talking doves, toddy
shops, traveling chefs and killer coconuts, evoking the beauty of a bygone era
as well as the compelling pull of the present one.
Sample
recipes:
- Meen
Vevichathu (Fish Curry Cooked in a Clay Pot) - Parippu (Lentils with Coconut Milk)
- Thiyal
(Shallots with Tamarind and Roasted Coconut) - Pesaha
Appam (Steamed Rice Bread) - Paalappam
(Lace-Rimmed Pancakes) - Karikku Pudding (Tender Coconut Pudding)
Review Quotes
"The Kerala Kitchen is that most marvelous of
cookbooks--where the stories are as good as the recipes. It makes me hungry, and
it makes me want to travel to the Kerala that Lathika George conjures so
evocatively. This is a book that is for anyone who's interested in India, or in
eating well." --Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City
"Here you will find clear recipes for the best of Kerala's fine foods, written with great love by someone who has been a part of that culinary tradition since birth."
--Madhur Jaffrey
"I have never read a
cookbook from cover to cover in one sitting, but then The Kerala Kitchen is so much more than a cookbook: It is
travelogue, memoir and food diary. What better way to understand the community
of Syrian Christians of Kerala--my community--than through our appetites. I
was transported back to my grandmother's kitchen and I could hear the mustard
seeds bursting and smell the delicious curries brewing in the clay pots she
heated on a stove that was no more than a tripod of bricks with coconut husks
as fuel. The Kerala Kitchen is a must . . . the easy and elegantly described
recipes, the primer on spices and their uses, make these dishes accessible to
all. Enjoy!" --Abraham Verghese author of The Covenant of Water
"A delightful, evocative, sumptuous menu, redolent of
fresh green paddy fields, coconut palms swaying in the breeze, and the pungent
spices of the Malabar coast . . .
mouth-watering and heart-warming!" --Shashi Tharoor Former UN Undersecretary General and author of The Great Indian Novel
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 8.0 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.4 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Regional & Ethnic
Genre: Cooking + Food + Wine
Number of Pages: 262
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Theme: Indian & South Asian
Format: Paperback
Author: Lathika George
Language: English
Street Date: August 29, 2023
TCIN: 87265645
UPC: 9780781814447
Item Number (DPCI): 247-41-2082
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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