There are few books available on Parsi cuisine in English. Joyce Westrip introduces this aromatic Indian cuisine that is based upon the culinary habits of the Parsis who left Iran some 1300 years ago to settle along India's western coastline.

The Moghuls gave India its greatest monuments and revolutionized Its cooking, as Westrip's ground-breaking book makes clear.

Colonial Cousins explores the historic relationships and connections between Australia and India, two colonies of the British Empire. The work considers affinities of landscape and culture, and documents relationships in trade and government, as well as anecdotal links from the time of Gondwana, when the continents were physically joined, to the present. 'Impressively and meticulously researched book ...' - Age 'The strength of Colonial Cousins, lies in the main text, which is a documented history of connections. It will certainly find a place in a University library.' - anglos in the wind