Chillies and Porridge: Writing Food

Chillies and Porridge: Writing Food
Author: Mita Kapur
Publisher: Collins
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-10-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9789351772842

Essential. Evocative. Addictive. The experience of food can mean many things to many people. Whether it's carrying a chilli around to dinner parties in the UK or finding out what it really means to be a vegetarian in a carnivorous world, whether it's exploring the junk food revolution in India or discovering the art of slow cooking, this full-bodied collection of food writing will take you back to the kitchens of your childhood, and far out to realms of imagined flavours and sensory excitement. A joyous mix of the familiar and the unfamiliar, the home-grown and the street-born, Chillies and Porridge is a celebration of that most vital ingredient of life: food. Features essays by Anita Nair, Avtar Singh, Bachi Karkaria, Bulbul Sharma, Chitrita Banerji, Sumana-Jayaditya-Bikramjit, Floyd Cardoz, Janice Pariat, Jerome Marrel, Jhampan Mookerjee, Kai Friese, Karthika Nair, Naintara M. Oberoi, Niloufer Ichaporia King, Mamang Dai, Manu Chandra, Nilanjana S. Roy, Rocky and Mayur, Saleem Kidwai, Sidin Vadukut, Srinath Perur, Tara Deshpande and Wendell Rodricks.

How to Get Published in India

How to Get Published in India
Author: Meghna Pant
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2019-02-10
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9388271084

They say everybody has a book in them, so why should only a select few get to share theirs with the world? As a new writer, the process of making your dream into a reality feels incredibly daunting given the lack of information out there. This inspired award-winning, bestselling author Meghna Pant to write a book filled with the advice she wishes someone had given her when she was starting out. Including never-before collected essays from experts in their field including Jeffrey Archer, Shobhaa De, Ashwin Sanghi, Meena Kandasamy and many more, How To Get Published in India busts myths and answers questions as varied as which publisher would be best for your work, where to find inspiration for a short story, how to manage your finances if you plan to write fulltime, how to write a cover letter and how to successfully promote your book.

Lean Days

Lean Days
Author: Manish Gaekwad
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-03-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9352776755

Fed up with his tedious desk job, a young man decides to quit on an impulse. He wants to write a novel, but doesn't think he has a story to tell. So the would-be writer, who was raised in a kotha, sets out to travel, hoping to arrive somewhere: at a destination, at a story. But it's not just about arriving. What about the journey? The joy and pain of trudging through the country without a plan, or a map? If his aim is to write, who will document his search for inspiration, and for love?Lean Days is the story of an artist's voyage through the country, mixing history with imagination, and finding people and places whose stories he can tell along with his own. It is a book of journeys without an end in sight, about the yearning for romance and succumbing to the temptations of the flesh.

The Book of Yields

The Book of Yields
Author: Francis T. Lynch
Publisher: Wiley Global Education
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2011-08-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 111813771X

The only product with yield information for more than 1,000 raw food ingredients, The Book of Yields, Eighth Edition is the chef's best resource for planning, costing, and preparing food more quickly and accurately. Now revised and updated in a new edition, this reference features expanded coverage while continuing the unmatched compilation of measurements, including weight-to-volume equivalents, trim yields, and cooking yields. The Book of Yields, Eighth Edition is a must-have culinary resource.

Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China (First edition)

Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China (First edition)
Author: Fuchsia Dunlop
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2009-08-24
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0393248984

"Not just a smart memoir about cross-cultural eating but one of the most engaging books of any kind I've read in years." —Celia Barbour, O, The Oprah Magazine After fifteen years spent exploring China and its food, Fuchsia Dunlop finds herself in an English kitchen, deciding whether to eat a caterpillar she has accidentally cooked in some home-grown vegetables. How can something she has eaten readily in China seem grotesque in England? The question lingers over this “autobiographical food-and-travel classic” (Publishers Weekly).

Cocktails for Book Lovers

Cocktails for Book Lovers
Author: Tessa Smith McGovern
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1402293410

Host the perfect book club discussion night or literary-themed party with 50 fun author-themed cocktails for the budding home mixologist and book lover! From Jane Austen's little-known fondness for wine to Hemingway's beloved mojitos, each entry pairs a classic or contemporary author with a cocktail recipe that's inspired by either one of their works or a popular drink from their era, along with an excerpt, a bio, and an additional book recommendation. It's a fabulous, chic pairing that's the perfect book club idea! After all, what's better than cocktails, conversation, and culture? Cocktails inspired by your favorite bestselling authors: Jane Austen's Miss Austen's Delight paired with Pride and Prejudice Isabel Allende's Madrina's Banana Rum Cocktail paired with Eva Luna F. Scott Fitzgerald's Gin Rickey paired with The Great Gatsby Dani Shapiro's Caramel Apple Martini paired with Devotion Other authors featured include: Jhumpa Lahiri Junot Diaz Zora Neale Hurston Joyce Carol Oates Anne Tyler Charlotte Bronte Dorothy Parker Flannery O'Connor Virginia Woolf Makes a perfect housewarming or hostess gift for readers and book lovers!

The Food of Sichuan

The Food of Sichuan
Author: Fuchsia Dunlop
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 947
Release: 2019-10-03
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1526617862

Winner of the Fortnum & Mason Cookery Book Award 2020 Shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writers Award 2020 Shortlisted for the James Beard Award 2020 'Cookbook of the year' Allan Jenkins, OFM 'No one explains the intricacies of Sichuan food like Fuchsia Dunlop. This book remains my bible for the subject' Jay Rayner A fully revised and updated edition of Fuchsia Dunlop's landmark book on Sichuan cookery. Almost twenty years after the publication of Sichuan Cookery, voted by the OFM as one of the greatest cookbooks of all time, Fuchsia Dunlop revisits the region where her own culinary journey began, adding more than 50 new recipes to the original repertoire and accompanying them with her incomparable knowledge of the dazzling tastes, textures and sensations of Sichuanese cookery. At home, guided by Fuchsia's clear instructions, and using just a few key Sichuanese storecupboard ingredients, you will be able to recreate Sichuanese classics such as Mapo tofu, Twice-cooked pork and Gong Bao chicken, or try your hand at a traditional spread of cold dishes comprising Bang bang chicken, Numbing-and-hot dried beef, Spiced cucumber salad and Green beans in ginger sauce. With spellbinding writing on the culinary and cultural history of Sichuan and accompanied by gorgeous travel and food photography, The Food of Sichuan is a captivating insight into one of the world's greatest cuisines. 'This book offers an unmissable opportunity to utilise the wok and cleaver, brave the fiery Mapo tofu and expand your technique with pot-stickers and steamed buns' Yotam Ottolenghi

The F Word

The F Word
Author: Mita Kapur
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2013-12-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 9350292483

'The F-Word makes the entire experience of enjoying food incredibly sexy! Lip- smackingly good' - Shobhaa De This book is a madcap account of a working woman who spends all day - and sometimes, most of the night - juggling family, friends, long-distance phone calls and food. How do you serve up a nutritious yet delicious meal to a large family of individuals of varying ages and with extreme differences in taste? How can you convert a carnivore into a lover of greens? And above all, what does a woman do to keep them all - partner, children, in-laws, pals - healthy and happy at the same time, without quietly going out of her mind? A chaotic culinary romp with unexpectedly tender moments, The F-Word is packed with seriously good recipes to suit every taste, however conservative or weird!

Vietnamese Street Food

Vietnamese Street Food
Author: Tracey Lister
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1742701426

As any traveller to Vietnam will know, the street food is second to none in terms of its diversity, great taste and availability. Vietnam is a real foodie's destination - and nowhere is it more vibrant than among the hustle and bustle of the streets. From the authors of KOTO Vietnamese Street Food gives you an insider's view of the country and features over sixty well-loved and authentic recipes, from the ever-popular pho to prawn rice paper rolls and the tangy, crunchy peanut-studded rice balls favoured by snacking students. With stunning food photography of every dish and complemented by evocative location photography, Vietnamese Street Food provides an unforgettable insight into Vietnamese street food and culture that will inspire both the home chef and the armchair traveller.

Raw & Free

Raw & Free
Author: Sophie Steevens
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1761060171

Sophie Steevens shares her favourite plant-based recipes and describes how she reversed a serious autoimmune disease by eating a completely plant-based diet. Four years on, she has fully recovered, her family have also embraced this lifestyle and they are all thriving. Sophie's hugely popular Instagram Raw and Free depicts her plant-based life with her gorgeous family of partner, professional surfer Ricardo Christie, and three young boys. Her stunning cookbook is packed with over 100 delicious, vibrant plant-based, gluten-free and refined-sugar-free recipes that she has devised, and that the whole family enjoys eating. There are easy, family-friendly wholefood recipes for all meals plus great information to help you get started, with material such as kitchen essentials, ingredient staples and lots of easy-to-follow tips for a wholesome, plant-based lifestyle.