Say goodbye to the takeaway and master the art of curry yourself with this collection of recipes from bestselling author and curry expert Madhur Jaffrey: 175 clear, accessible and simple recipes guaranteed to make your mouth water! Beautifully written and fully illustrated with stunning photography, this is cookbook that you'll reach for time and time again. 'A true classic - fresh, intelligent and simply scrumptious' -- ***** Reader review 'Transforms Indian food into something relatively speedy to prepare at home' -- ***** Reader review 'Jaffrey is my 'go to' if I want something Indian and tasty' -- ***** Reader review 'This is definitely one of our best/favourite cookery books' -- ***** Reader review 'This is our go to recipe book for all Indian food' -- ***** Reader review 'Clear, concise recipes. Curry Easy is exactly what it says' -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************************************************* In this delicious collection of recipes, Madhur Jaffrey shows us that Indian food need not be complicated or involve hours in the kitchen. Take a few well chosen spices and readily available ingredients, and in a few easy steps you can make a delicious prawn curry from Goa; succulent chicken baked in an almond and onion sauce; hearty Sri Lankan beef with coconut milk; a creamy potato and pea curry; tasty swiss chard stir fried with ginger and garlic; and a spicy dip with beans (canned of course), cumin, chillies and lime.... Whether you are cooking curry for the first time or have plenty of culinary experience and are looking for quick and easy recipe ideas, Madhur Jaffrey brings you all the tastes of India with the minimum of work - it really is Curry Easy!

A tasty compendium of spices and a fascinating history and wide array of uses of the world's favorite flavors-The Book of Spice reveals the amazing history of spices both familiar and esoteric. John O'Connell's erudite chapters combine history with insights into art, religion, medicine, and science, and is richly seasoned with anecdotes and recipes. Discover why Cleopatra bathed in saffron and mare's milk, why wormwood-laced absinthe caused eighteenth-century drinkers to hallucinate and how cloves harvested in remote Indonesian islands found their way into a kitchen in ancient Syria. Almost every kitchen contains a bottle of cloves or a stick of cinnamon, almost every dish a pinch of something, whether chili or cumin. The Book of Spice is culinary history at its most appetizing.