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Here's something from elsewhere. In regards to his last paragraph I posted
info on Indian mail order ingredients to this list back on 20 April 1995.
Can send GET CELIAC LOG9504 to the listserv (not to CELIAC@) and get a copy.
Also I'm curious if anybody tried mail ordering from them? Don.
 
 
From: "Charis S. Gerbino" <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Indian Cookbooks
Date: 30 Sep 1995 16:30:38 GMT
 
Julie Sahini's books are widely known and recommended, but they *appear* to
have been tailored for the American cook/kitchen/palate, and to spices/herbs
available to the American cook. If I'm going to go to the trouble, and as
long as I'm living in NYC I have access to Indian grocers, I would rather be
as authentic as possible. Of couse, you can't *exactly* duplicate an Indian
dish made in India. (See Shankar's posts on mangos, and Madhur Jaffrey's
comments on American meat.) However, based on my own experience, it *is*
possible to do well enough to please both your own and some Indian=
 tastebuds!
 
Here's the list:
 
1) "The Curry Club Book of Indain Cuisine" by Pat Chapman
        Prima Publishing, 1992
 
2) "Meatless Indian Cooking" by Pat Chapman, Prima Publishing, Rocklin, CA,
        1995, ISBN 1-55958-690-7
 
3) "Flavors of India" by Madhur Jaffrey, Carol Southern Books (Crown
        Publishers, Inc.), 1995, ISBN 0-517-70012-3
 
4) "A Taste of India" by Madhur Jaffrey Athenium (MacMillan Publishing Co.),
        New York, 1988 ISBN 0-689-70726-6
 
5) "An Invitation To Indian Cooking" by Madhur Jaffrey, Vintage Books=
 (Random
        House), New York, 1973, ISBN 0-394-71191-2
 
6) "=CFndian Cooking" by Madhur Jaffrey, Barron's Educational Series, Inc.,
        Hauppauge, New York, 1983, ISBN 0-8120-2700-0
 
7) "The Book of Curries & Indian Foods" by Linda Fraser
        HP Books by arrangement with Salamander Books Ltd.
        and Merchurst, London,1989
 
8) "The Complete Indian Cookbook" by Mridula Baljekar, Smithmark
        Publishers Inc., New York, 1994, ISBDN 0-8317-1487-5
 
9) "Dakshin: Vegetarian Cuisine From Douth India" by Chandra Padmanabhan,
        Thornsons (Harper Collins Publishers), 1992, ISBN 0-207-18477-1
 
10) "Indian Home Cooking" by Meera Blackley, Chatwell Books Inc.
        Book Sales, Inc.), Secaucus, New Jersey, 1993, ISBN 0-7858-0196-0
 
The following two are not *strictly Indian, but Indian inspired. Both
authors have written Indian cookbooks as well.
 
11) "The Indian Inspired Cookbook: A New Cuisine for the International=
 Table"
        by Bharti Kirchner, Lowell Books, Los Angeles, 1993, ISBN=
 1-56565-200-2
 
12) "Yamuna's Table" by Yamuna Devi, A Plume Book (Penguin Books), New York,
        1995
 
Your next order of business will be to locate Indian grocers from whom to
buy the spices. In the backs of a couple of the books, "An Invitation to
Indian Cooking" being one, there are a few sources listed. If you tell me
where you're located, I might be able to find listed a store or mail order
place reasonably close to you.
 
If I can be of further assistance, I would be happy to do so.
 
Charis.