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(More customer reviews)Is this a book about Indian cooking, or a Tammy Wynette dirge? This book never resolves its identity crisis, or pulls together harmoniously.
While we began approaching this book with keen interest and excitement, we unfortunately found ourselves beaten over the head over and over again with an ungainly admixture of the author's anguished, desperate, unsuccessful quest for personal meaning and fulfillment. How many times is it actually necessary in a single book, ostensibly on the subject of cooking, to groan about one's divorced status? At our house, we'd actually begun referring to the book as "the divorce book". Reading it, one feels uncomfortably like an invisible spectator during the author's therapy sessions.
And this is a real shame, because the proposition for the book is actually intriguing; and the author seems to have taken the project quite seriously and gained a good deal of experience and good information on the actual cooking.
All in all, we found it an uncomfortable book to read. While the project had a lot of potential, it seems the vision and editing necessary to make the book something really nice was missing.
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“Please teach me Indian cooking! I will bring ingredients and pay you for your trouble. I would like to know about your culture as well.”And with this posting on Craigslist, so begins Nani Power’s journey to learn traditional Indian cooking in the most ancient of ways - woman to woman. Welcomed warmly into the homes of strangers, Power meets women of all ages and backgrounds, and from them learns the skills that were passed on to them from their own mothers. Power takes the reader into a culture, a cuisine, and the female psyche, with recipes and stories from each chapter revealing the struggle of modern women, both American and of Indian descent, searching for identity and a definition of what it means to be a woman today.The recipes shared in this collection are far from ordinary; they are treasured family recipes from vegetarian homes in India - from homemade cheese cubes in a rich cilantro and almond curry to coconut-stuffed okra and luscious potato-curry dumplings. Power’s recipes and stories pave the road to understanding a culture that is at the same time ancient and so very much part of our modern world.
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