My Bombay Kitchen : Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking.
The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. These traits still find expression in the cooking of India's rapidly dwindling Parsi population--descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia after the Sassanian empire fell to t...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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CA :
University of California Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. These traits still find expression in the cooking of India's rapidly dwindling Parsi population--descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia after the Sassanian empire fell to the invading Arabs. The first book published in the United States on Parsi food written by a Parsi, this beautiful volume includes 165 recipes and makes one of India's most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners. In an intimate narrative rich with personal experience, the author leads reader. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (356 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520933378 0520933370 1282359169 9781282359161 |