Indian Menu Planner

Author: Lavina RaoPublisher: Roli BooksYear: 1997Language: EnglishPages: 112ISBN/UPC (if available): 8174370927 DescriptionThis book gives one hundred thousand exciting Indian menus to choose from, and in a rather novel way, it helps the reader to make infinite permutations and combinations. In a land so rich in tradition which has seen the rise of so many civilizations, it would be surprising if Indian food had remained untouched by the hands of history. The ancient Indian were a wheat-eating race and gave the world that essentially Indian bread, the chapati, - a small flat thin cake of unleavened whole meal bread. The Mughals made a culinary coup by bringing in the tandoor - an oven made of earth and heated by a slow charcoal fire - and creating the delectable Mughlai cuisine of biryanis- an exquisite rice preparation with meat, herbs and seasonings and Kormas - a spicymeat or vegetable preparation. The British raj spawned an interesting Anglo-Indian gastronomic culture of which