Book Reviews

  Many American readers know Roopa Gulati through Diana Henry’s books. Roopa’s Spicy Scrambled Eggs appear in A Change of Appetite. Her Lemongrass Turmeric Chicken recipe has stained many a copy of A Bird In The Hand. Her Mumbai Toastie recipe, printed in Simple, has acheived cult status. This is…

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  2001. Life before internet. Supermarkets sold two types of soy sauce: regular and low sodium. Rice, available in boxes, was always white, parboiled, and cooked in a minute. Water chestnuts tasted of the cans they were sold in. This was the environment that greeted Fuchsia Dunlop’s Land of Plenty. Fast…

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