100 Best Indian Cooking Books of All Time

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Indian Instant Pot Cooking: Traditional Indian Dishes Made Easy & Fast book cover1

Indian Instant Pot Cooking: Traditional Indian Dishes Made Easy & Fast

Urvashi Pitre

5.0

Traditional Indian cuisine comes to your very modern Instant Pot®, including aloo gobi, butter chicken, chana masala, beef curry, pork saag, and more.Discover how simple and delicious traditional Indian cuisine can be. The Indian Instant Pot Cookbook offers fast and easy takes on classic Indian dishes—all designed to be cooked in your electric pressure cooker.Whether you're new to Indian food or l

Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen: Traditional and Creative Recipes for the Home Cook book cover2

Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen: Traditional and Creative Recipes for the Home Cook

Richa Hingle

4.9
The ultimate plant-based Indian cookbook by the creator of VeganRicha.com.

From delicious dals to rich curries, flat breads, savory breakfasts, snacks, and much more, this vegan cookbook brings you Richa Hingle’s collection of plant-based Indian recipes inspired by regional cuisines, Indian culture, local foods, and proven methods.

Whether you want to enjoy Indian cooking, try some new spices, or ad
Madhur Jaffrey's Quick & Easy Indian Cooking book cover3

Madhur Jaffrey's Quick & Easy Indian Cooking

Madhur Jaffrey and Noel Barnhurst

4.8
With more than ten reprints, it's clear cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey wins the popular vote for delicious Indian recipes that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. Now with a beautiful new design and all-new photographs, Madhur Jaffrey's Quick & Easy Indian Cooking is ready to wow another generation of home cooks. Written by the world's foremost authority on Indian cooking, this terrific volume
India: The Cookbook book cover4

India: The Cookbook

Pushpesh Pant

4.8
India: The Cookbook is the first comprehensive guide to Indian cooking, with over 1,000 recipes covering every aspect of India's rich and colourful culinary heritage. Unlike many other Indian cookbooks, it is written by an Indian culinary academic and cookbook author who lives and works in Delhi, and the recipes are a true reflection of how traditional dishes are really cooked all over India. They
Patrick French portrait Recommended by Patrick French.
Fresh India: 130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day book cover5

Fresh India: 130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day

Meera Sodha

4.7
From the author of the Top Ten Bestseller Made in India

Following on from her bestselling Made in India, Meera Sodha reveals a whole new side of Indian food that is fresh, delicious and quick to make at home. These vegetable-based recipes are proper feel good food, and full of flavour.

Here are surprising recipes for every day made using easy to find ingredients: mushroom and walnut samosas, oven-ba
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Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking

Madhur Jaffrey

4.6
Made in India: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen book cover7

Made in India: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen

Meera Sodha

4.6
The best Indian food is cooked (and eaten) at home.

Real Indian food is fresh, simple, and packed with flavor. In Made In India, Meera Sodha introduces you to the food she grew up eating every day. Unlike the fare you get at your local Indian takeout joint, her food is vibrant and surprisingly quick and easy to make.

Meera serves up a feast of over 130 delicious recipes collected from three generati
An Invitation to Indian Cooking book cover8

An Invitation to Indian Cooking

Madhur Jaffrey

4.6
This seminal book, originally published in 1973, introduced the richly fascinating cuisine of India to America—and changed the face of American cooking. Now, as Indian food enjoys an upsurge of popularity in the United States, a whole new generation of readers and cooks will find all they need to know about Indian cooking in Madhur Jaffrey’s wonderful book.
Jaffrey was prompted to become a cook by
Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family book cover9

Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family

Priya Krishna

4.6
A witty and irresistible celebration of one very cool and boundary-breaking mom’s “Indian-ish” cooking—with accessible and innovative Indian-American recipes

Indian food is everyday food! This colorful, lively book is food writer Priya Krishna’s loving tribute to her mom’s “Indian-ish” cooking—a trove of one-of-a-kind Indian-American hybrids that are easy to make, clever, practical, and packed wit
Aarti Paarti: An American Kitchen with an Indian Soul book cover10

Aarti Paarti: An American Kitchen with an Indian Soul

Aarti Sequeira

4.6
A beautifully-written cookbook weaving Indian and Middle Eastern recipes from her childhood with American dishes she has grown to love--from the Food Network personality.

AARTI PAARTI: An American Kitchen with an Indian Soul

A collection of memories and 101 recipes from the popular blogger(www.aartipaarti.com) and Food Network personality. The recipes will make cooking with traditional Indian flavo
Vegetarian India: A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking: A Cookbook book cover11

Vegetarian India: A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking: A Cookbook

Madhur Jaffrey

4.6
No one knows Indian food like Madhur Jaffrey. For more than forty years, the "godmother of Indian cooking" (The Independent on Sunday) has introduced Western home cooks to the vibrant cuisines of her homeland. Now, in Vegetarian India: A Journey Through the Best of Indian Home Cooking, the seven-time James Beard Award-winning author shares the delectable, healthful, vegetable- and grain-based foo
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Prashad Cookbook: Indian Vegetarian Cooking

Kaushy Patel

4.6
100 delicious vegetarian Indian recipes from Gordon Ramsay's Best Restaurant runner-up Prashad.

The Patels and Prashad, their small Indian restaurant in Bradford, were the surprise stars of Ramsay's Best Restaurant TV show in autumn 2010. Everyone who saw them fell in love with this inspirational family dedicated to serving delicious, original vegetarian food.

At the heart of the family is Kaushy, w
My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking book cover13

My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking

Niloufer Ichaporia King and Alice Waters

4.6
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 be
Dishoom: From Bombay with Love book cover14

Dishoom: From Bombay with Love

Shamil Thakrar

4.5
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'A love letter to Bombay told through food and stories, including their legendary black daal' Yotam Ottolenghi

At long last, Dishoom share the secrets to their much sought-after Bombay comfort food: the Bacon Naan Roll, Black Daal, Okra Fries, Jackfruit Biryani, Chicken Ruby and Lamb Raan, along with Masala Chai, coolers and cocktails.

As you learn to cook the Dishoom menu
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Curry Easy

Jaffrey, Madhur Jaffrey

4.5
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
Colm O'gorman portrait Recommended by Colm O'gorman.
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Indian Cookery Course

Monisha Bharadwaj

4.5

This comprehensive guide to Indian cooking explores the myriad regional varieties of authentic, healthy and lesser known Indian recipes. Monisha covers a varied range of dishes as well as providing insights into ingredients, techniques and step-by-step masterclasses.With chapters broken down into: Rice, Breads, Meat, Fish & Seafood, Poultry, Eggs, Dairy, Lentils & Beans, Vegetables, Snack & Sides,

Indian for Everyone: The Home Cook's Guide to Traditional Favorites book cover17

Indian for Everyone: The Home Cook's Guide to Traditional Favorites

Anupy Singla

4.5
Now beautifully repackaged in convenient paperback format, Indian for Everyone is the third book by Anupy Singla, former broadcast journalist turned foodie blogger turned best-selling author. This book is by far Singla's most stunning and comprehensive offering yet. Singla is America's favorite authority on Indian home cooking, and her expertise with delicious, healthful recipes and her commitment
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Classic Indian Cooking

Julie Sahni

4.5
This extraordinary cookbook, Classic Indian Cooking, amounts to a complete course in Indian cuisine. Elucidated by over 100 line drawings, it systematically introduces the properties of all the basic spices and special ingredients of Indian food, then explains the techniques employed in using them, always with the help of comparisons to familiar Western methods.

It is immediately obvious that India
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660 Curries

Raghavan Iyer

4.5
Curry is Salmon with Garlic and Turmeric. Curry is Grilled Chicken with Cashew-Tomato Sauce. Curry is Asparagus with Tomato and Crumbled Paneer. Curry is Lamb with Yellow Split Peas, Chunky Potatoes with Spinach, Tamarind Shrimp with Coconut Milk, Baby Back Ribs with a Sweet-Sour Glaze and Vinegar Sauce, Basmati Rice with Fragrant Curry Leaves. Curry is vivid flavors, seasonal ingredients, a kalei
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Tasting India

Christine Manfield

4.5
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Rick Stein's India

Rick Stein

4.5
Whenever I hear the word curry, I’m filled with a longing for spicy hot food with the fragrance of cumin, cloves and cinnamon. I see deep red colours from lots of Kashmiri chillis, tinged with a suggestion of yellow from turmeric. I think of the tandoor oven, and slightly scorched naan shining with ghee and garlic.When Indians talk of their food, they talk about their life. To understand this coun
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Vegetarian Indian Cooking with Your Instant Pot: Quick, Easy, Healthy Meals Featuring All of the Flavors of India

Manali Singh

4.5
Born and raised in India, Manali Singh—founder of Cook with Manali—has perfected the traditional flavors of her home country. Business Insider claims that Indian Cuisine will be the next “big thing,” and Manali makes it healthier and more approachable by making her delicious vegetarian recipes in the incredibly popular Instant Pot.

Vegetarian Indian Cooking with Your Instant Pot features favorites
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Nadiya’s Family Favourites: Easy, beautiful and show-stopping recipes for every day from Nadiya's BBC TV series

Nadiya Hussain

4.4
Nadiya returns to your TV and your kitchen . . .


This is the OFFICIAL companion cookbook, featuring the beautiful, simple and must-try recipes from her upcoming BBC TV series NADIYA'S FAMILY FAVOURITES.

Nadiya shares the food she loves to cook and eat with her family and friends, offering fast, easy and delicious new recipes for every kind of day.

This cookbook shows you how to create the perfect d
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1,000 Indian Recipes

Neelam Batra

4.4
Delve into the fascinating flavors and variety of Indian cuisine with this unrivaled recipe collectionYou'll discover delicious choices for dishes that make Indian food unforgettable: crispy fritters; tangy pickles; chaat snacks and salads; refreshing yogurt raitas; richly flavored curries; comforting legume (dal) dishes; creative vegetable and meat main courses and side dishes; decadent desserts;
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The Hairy Bikers' Great Curries

Hairy Bikers

4.4
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Keto Made Easy: 100+ Easy Keto Dishes Made Fast to Fit Your Life

Megha Barot

4.3
Everything can be made keto! That’s the message that food bloggers Matt Gaedke and Megha Barot want to deliver with their new book, Keto Made Easy. No more missing out on classics or favorite dishes, no more added costs with exotic new ingredients—in Keto Made Easy, Matt and Megha show you how to re-create non-keto recipes in easy, cost-effective, and delicious ways.

Recipes include:

• Crab Mac ’n’
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Chai, Chaat & Chutney: a street food journey through India

Chetna Makan

4.3
Chetna Makan has travelled to the four corners of India - Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi and Chennai - sampling the extreme varieties of street food on offer. Each area has subtle differences in ingredients and techniques, making the cuisine completely unique and full of character.

In Chai, Chaat & Chutney, Chetna has taken inspiration from the street and created delicious recipes that are simple to cook a
The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook: 500 Vibrant, Kitchen-Tested Recipes for Living and Eating Well Every Day book cover28

The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook: 500 Vibrant, Kitchen-Tested Recipes for Living and Eating Well Every Day

America's Test Kitchen

4.3
America's most trusted test kitchen tackles a topic with serious staying power: the Mediterranean diet. This thorough yet user-friendly book brings the Mediterranean into the American home kitchen, with 500 amazingly flavorful yet surprisingly approachable recipes for everyday cooking.

There's a reason why people in the Mediterranean region are among the longest lived in the world--their diet, whic
The Complete Indian Instant Pot Cookbook: 130 Traditional and Modern Recipes book cover29

The Complete Indian Instant Pot Cookbook: 130 Traditional and Modern Recipes

Chandra Ram

4.3
Traditional and Modern Indian Recipes for the Home Cook -- Officially Authorized by Instant Pot(R)!

The Instant Pot(R) is a game-changer for Indian cooking because it replaces a pressure cooker, slow cooker, yogurt maker, rice cooker, bread proofer and steamer all in one. Gone are the days when preparing Indian food just seemed too intimidating or for weekends only. Dried lentils and chickpeas cook
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Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking

Yamuna Devi

4.3
Finally back in print--the definitive volume on Indian vegetarian cooking. Created by a noted author and lecturer, Lord Krishna's Cuisine features more than 500 recipes, filled with fresh produce and herbs, delicate spices, hot curries, and homemade dairy products. All recipes are based on readily available ingredients and have been scrupulously adapted for American kitchens. The recipes are enliv
Heartland Masala: An Indian Cookbook from an American Kitchen book cover31

Heartland Masala: An Indian Cookbook from an American Kitchen

Jyoti Mukharji, Auyon Mukharji

4.3

2025 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Gold Winner in Cooking Heartland Masala pairs 99 recipes from Indian cooking instructor Jyoti Mukharji with cultural and historical essays by her son Auyon Mukharji. An effervescent celebration of Indian cuisine and the American immigrant experience, this beautiful cookbook is playful, informative, and utterly original.Real Simple, Food Editor's Top Coo

Vegan Richa's Everyday Kitchen: Epic Anytime Recipes with Worlds of Flavor book cover32

Vegan Richa's Everyday Kitchen: Epic Anytime Recipes with Worlds of Flavor

Richa Hingle

4.3
By the author of the best-selling Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen.


In her second book, best-selling author Richa Hingle applies her culinary skills to international comfort foods. These unique recipes are easy to make and have an astonishing depth of flavor.

Enjoy Richa’s wow factor in these curries and masalas as well as pizzas, casseroles, sweet-and-sour dishes, Asian noodles, and the next generation
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The Complete Cooking For Two Cookbook

America's Test Kitchen

4.3
The only comprehensive cookbook specially designed for a 2-person household--with more than 650 foolproof recipes scaled down for two, from America's most trusted test kitchen. From breakfast to dinner, sides to desserts, plus slow cooking, vegetarian and grilling, we include a wide range of cuisines. A perfect gift for newlyweds, small families, or empty-nesters.
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Taste of Eastern India: Delicious, Authentic Bengali Meals You Need to Try

Kankana Saxen

4.3
The Vibrant Flavors of Bengali Cuisine Brought to Your Home Kitchen

Bengali native Kankana Saxena captures the wealth of intoxicating dishes and depths of favor that are fundamental to the Bengali community with savory stews, fragrant rice dishes, zesty spice blends and iconic street foods.

Each recipe preserves the authenticity of traditional Indian cuisine but with a modern approach specific to th
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Best Ever Indian Cookbook

Mridula Baljekar, Rafi Fernandez, Shehzad Husain, Manisha Kanani

4.3
A fully illustrated guide to preparing delicious Indian food, featuring 325 easy and original recipes inspired by this popular cuisine. Includes expert advice on how to produce stunning results every time, using authentic ingredients and classic cooking methods.

You can make tempting dishes for every occasion, from light, crispy appetizers to meaty mains, vegetarian curries to seafood specialties;
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Mowgli Street Food: Stories and Recipes from the Mowgli Street Food Restaurants

Nisha Katona

4.3
This is real Indian food; the bright, fresh, light, herb- and spice-lifted food that Indians turn to each and every day. Extremely healthy, beautifully simple and packed with fresh flavour, it's not your parents' Indian food.

In 2014, barrister Nisha Katona had a nagging obsession to build a restaurant serving the kind of food Indians eat at home and on the street. The first Mowgli restaurant ope
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Vegetarian Recipes from South India Like Mother Makes

Madhuram Shankar

4.3
Explore both culture and cuisine through this collection of 100 authentic and individually tested recipes from South India, home to one of the world's oldest traditions in vegetarian cooking, now laid out in an easy, cook-as-you-read format! Some of the reasons why this book belongs in your kitchen library: • A great introduction for the novice into food not typically available even in Indian rest
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New Indian Seafood Cooking: Recipes from the Cinnamon Club Restaurant

Vivek Singh

4.3
Fish recipes from the world's leading chef at the Cinnamon Club.
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Eat Feel Fresh: A Contemporary, Plant-Based Ayurvedic Cookbook

Sahara Rose Ketabi

4.3
Bring your body into balance with over 100 healing recipes for a modern Ayurvedic lifestyle.

The ancient science of Ayurveda teaches that food is divine medicine with the power to heal--but the best foods for one person may not be beneficial to another. Unlike many diets with rigid, one-size-fits-all guidelines, Ayurveda is a lifestyle that recognizes the ever-changing needs of each individual. Joi
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The Spice Tree: Indian Cooking Made Beautifully Simple

Nisha Katona

4.3


Learn the secret to incredible homemade curries.

From the founder of Mowgli and BBC's Top of the Shops and Recipes That Made Me.

Cook authentic curries at home with Nisha's 4 simple steps and delicious, family recipes.

Nisha's infographic spice trees show you which spices and ingredients always go together in the Indian kitchen while Nisha’s recipes for generous, flavoursome food bring the flav
The Essential Air Fryer Cookbook for Two: Perfectly Portioned Recipes for Healthier Fried Favorites book cover41

The Essential Air Fryer Cookbook for Two: Perfectly Portioned Recipes for Healthier Fried Favorites

Gina Kleinworth

4.3

Create delicious meals for two using your air fryer The Essential Air Fryer Cookbook for Two is perfect for making smaller portions in your convenient all-in-one appliance. You'll get essential guidance for using your air fryer plus more than 100 recipes that take the guesswork out of small-scale cooking.What sets The Essential Air Fryer Cookbook for Two apart from other air fryer recipes cookbook

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The Cardamom Trail: Chetna Bakes with Flavours of the East

Chetna Makan

4.3

Chetna Makan is known for her unique recipes, which introduce colorful spices, aromatic herbs and other Indian ingredients into traditional Western baked favorites.

Whether it's a sponge cake with a cardamom and coffee filling; puff pastry bites filled with fenugreek paneer; a swirly bread rolled with citrusy coriander, mint and green mango chutney; or a steamed strawberry pudding flavoured with ci
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Asma's Indian Kitchen: Home-Cooked Food Brought to You by Darjeeling Express by Asma Khan

Asma Khan

4.3
Feed your soul with Asma Khan's collection of authentic Indian recipes. Asma Khan's stars in Netflix's award-winning series Chef's Table.
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Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible

Madhur Jaffrey

4.2
This is the most comprehensive book ever published on curries, written by Madhur Jaffrey, the world's bestselling Indian cookery author. The influence of the Indian curry has been far-reaching: Indian immigrants and traders influenced the cooking of many other great cuisines of the world, including those of Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and China. History blends with recipes in this m
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Rajasthan on a Platter: Easy, Tasty, Healthy

Dr. Suman Bhatnagar, Dr. Pushpa Gupta

4.2
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Rajasthan on a Platter: Easy, Tasty, Healthy offers a wide, select and unique variety of traditional and tasty but simple homemade recipes. It transfers homegrown knowledge to the young generation and caters to multicultural readership. Each recipe has been combined with supplementary food items to present the concept of a tasty, wholesome and nutritious meal. They focus on a fast-changing
Season: Big Flavors, Beautiful Food book cover46

Season: Big Flavors, Beautiful Food

Nik Sharma, John Birdsall

4.2
There are few books that offer home cooks a new way to cook and to think about flavor—and fewer that do it with the clarity and warmth of Nik Sharma's Season. Season features 100 of the most delicious and intriguing recipes you've ever tasted, plus 270 of the most beautiful photographs ever seen in a cookbook. Here Nik, beloved curator of the award-winning food blog A Brown Table, shares a treasur
Nigella Lawson portrait Recommended by Nigella Lawson.
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Coconut Lagoon: Recipes from a South Indian Kitchen

Joe Thottungal

4.2
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My Two Souths: Blending the Flavors of India into a Southern Kitchen

Asha Gomez

4.2
2017 The Gourmand Awards National Winner: BEST INDIAN CUISINE

2017 James Beard Award Nominee

2017 Winner, Food 52's The Piglet Award

My Two Souths takes you on a culinary journey with Chef Asha Gomez, from her small village in the Kerala region of southern India to her celebrated restaurants in Atlanta, and on into your kitchen. Her singular recipes are rooted in her love of Deep-South cooking, as w
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Madhur Jaffrey's Spice Kitchen: Fifty Recipes Introducing Indian Spices and Aromatic Seeds

Madhur Jaffrey

4.2
From cardamon pods and fresh corriander to fenugreek, tamarind, and cumin, famed chef and author Madhur Jaffrey offers cooks a complete introduction to the spices that help make Indian cooking one of the world's most distinctive cuisines. 20 illustrations. 2 colors throughout.
Indian Food Under Pressure: Authentic Indian Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker book cover50

Indian Food Under Pressure: Authentic Indian Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker

Ashley Singh Thomas

4.2
Indian Food Under Pressure: Indian Recipes For Your Electric Pressure Cooker is a cookbook with 60 North and South Indian recipes.
Ashley Singh Thomas, founder of the food blog, My Heart Beets, shares 60 mouthwatering North and South Indian recipes in this cookbook. These tried and true recipes will have you spending less time in the kitchen and more time enjoying tasty, aromatic and flavorful foo
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Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu

Alamelu Vairavan

4.2
The best of Alamelu's cookbooks and TV recipes in one volume!

"I highly recommend Healthful Indian Flavors with Alamelu to readers who want to take advantage of the powerful, healing antioxidant qualities of spices and at the same time, indulge in the flavor-rich, wholesome offerings of Indian cuisine." -- Dr. Bharat Aggarwal, author of Healing Spices

This cookbook contains recipes featured on the
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Indian Cooking Unfolded: A Master Class in Indian Cooking, with 100 Easy Recipes Using 10 Ingredients or Less

Raghavan Iyer

4.2
Unfolded and uncomplicated: Indian recipes in a foldout-format cookbook.

The cookbook and primer that makes Indian cooking completely accessible for the home cook. Written by an award-winning teacher, it’s a collection of 100 authentic yet brilliantly simple-to-follow recipes with no difficult techniques, no hard-to-find ingredients, no complex spice blends, and no excessive prep time needed. Lear
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Grains, Greens, and Grated Coconuts: Recipes and Remembrances of a Vegetarian Legacy

Ammini Ramachandran

4.2
"Other books have ably explored India's far southern territory, but Ms. Ramachandran reveals amazing range and depth in Kerala's Hindu vegetarian traditions."-The New York Times review "Ammini Ramachandran, a Texas based food writer with roots in the Indian state of Kerala, has self published an authoritative cookbook cum memoir, Grains, Greens, and Grated Coconuts, on that region's elaborate, nua
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Varied Kitchens of India PB

. Marks

4.2
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My Bangladesh Kitchen: Recipes and Food Memories from a Family Table

Saira Hamilton

4.2
The food of Bangladesh is explored in this evocative new cookbook. Saira presents 100 traditional family dishes full of intriguing spice and flavour, all gorgeously photographed by Ian Garlick. Bangladesh is a land of contrasts, from busy cities to the lush and fertile countryside, with fish ponds, lakes and rivers at every turn. The cuisine reflects the abundance of vegetables and fish, and has a
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The Suriani Kitchen

Lathika George

4.2
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Savoring the Spice Coast of India: Fresh Flavors from Kerala

Maya Kaimal

4.2
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Cinnamon Kitchen: The Cookbook

Vivek Singh

4.2
Cinnamon Kitchen is the sibling of the great Westminster restaurant The Cinnamon Club, where chef Vivek Singh made his name and helped spearhead a new and exciting direction for Indian food. As Executive Chef at Cinnamon Kitchen, Vivek has brought all of his talents to create new and exciting Indian dishes, all with fresh modern twists, and this cookbook is a collection of the very best of them. F
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The Curry Guy: Recreate Over 100 of the Best Indian Restaurant Recipes at Home

Dan Toombs

4.1
The Thinking Man's Guide to Life compiles the latest insights from psychology and neuroscience on every aspect of life. Covering rest, play, work, and leisure, Alfred Tong compiles interviews with experts of different fields such as psychologists, jetlag experts, and philosophers, creating an insightful guide for upwardly mobile men.
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Healthy South Indian Cooking, Expanded Edition

Alamelu Vairavan

4.1
In the famous Chettinad Healthy cooking tradition of Southern India, these foods evoke South Indian forgotten by Chicken Tikka Masala enthusiasts. Mostly vegetarian, these recipes allow home cooks to create such esoteric: dishes as Potato-flled Dosas with Coconut Chutney; Pearl Onion and Tomato Sambhar; Chickpea and Bell Pepper per Poriyal; and Eggplant Masala Curry. Rasams, breads, legumes and pa
Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes book cover61

Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes

Anupy Singla

4.1
This beautiful follow-up to Anupy Singla's widely praised first cookbook, the Indian Slow Cooker, is a unique guide to preparing favorite recipes from the Indian tradition using entirely vegan ingredients. Featuring more than 50 recipes, and illustrated with color photography throughout, these great recipes are all prepared in healthful versions that use vegan alternatives to rich cream, butter, a
Ayurvedic Cooking for Self Healing book cover62

Ayurvedic Cooking for Self Healing

Usha Lad, Vasant Lad

4.1
A compendium of balanced Ayurvedic recipes combined with information on the Ayurvedic principles of food and diet. It also gives a comprehensive listing of foods categorized by suitability to body type as well as a chart listing the qualities of foods, along with a chart to determine your own constitution.
Zareen’s Pakistani Kitchen: Recipes from a Well-Fed Childhood (Pakistani and Indian Cooking) book cover63

Zareen’s Pakistani Kitchen: Recipes from a Well-Fed Childhood (Pakistani and Indian Cooking)

Zareen Khan, Umair Khan

4.1

Zareen’s Pakistani Kitchen: Recipes from Pakistan, India, and BeyondReplete with stunning photography and heartfelt stories, Zareen’s Pakistani Kitchen celebrates the rich, diverse flavors of Pakistani cuisine—along with beloved Desi dishes from across the Indian subcontinent.Created by the team behind the James Beard semifinalist–approved restaurant Zareen's in the San Francisco Bay Area, this co

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Prashad At Home: Everyday Indian Cooking from our Vegetarian Kitchen

Kaushy Patel

4.1

Since winning everyone over on Ramsay's Best Restaurant, Prashad has grown in size and reputation, and so too has the Patel family. In this, their second book, Kaushy returns the focus to the heart of Indian home cooking.

Traditional recipes have been simplified using readily available ingredients. These are the quick dishes that can be prepared in the evenings when you're tired after work, meals

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Parsi Food and Customs

Bhicoo J. Manekshaw

4.1
Celebrations, rituals and food inevitably go together. And so it is with the Parsis. From Navroz, the dawn of the Parsi New Year, to Navjote, the initiation ceremony of a young child, lagan or marriage, jashans and ghambhars, there is a variety of food to suit every occasion. In this unique book, Bhicoo J. Manekshaw takes the reader on a journey far beyond the traditional stereotypical dhan sakh r
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Masala & Meatballs: Incredible Indian Dishes with an American Twist

Mallika Bas

4.1
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Tandoor: The Great Indian Barbecue

Ranjit Rai

4.1
An introduction to the ancient Indian culinary art of tandoor presents more than seventy delicious recipes, including lamb, fish, poultry, kebab, and vegetarian dishes, as well as breads, chutneys, relishes, marinades, and tenderizers.
Instant Pot Asian Pressure Cooker Meals: Fast, Fresh & Affordable book cover68

Instant Pot Asian Pressure Cooker Meals: Fast, Fresh & Affordable

Patricia Tanumihardja

4.1
Instant Pot Asian Pressure Cooker Meals shows you how to cook all your favorite Asian dishes at home using healthy, inexpensive ingredients and your Instant Pot!

In this cookbook, Asian-American food expert Pat Tanumihardja shows you how to buy fresh ingredients, condiments and spices from your local supermarket, farmers market or health food store on a budget, then how to use them to prepare delic
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Dakshin: Vegetarian Cuisine from South India

Chandra Padmanabhan

4.1
"Dakshin" in an ancient Sanskrit word meaning "south." It symbolizes what this Indian cookbook is all about — the best and most delicious of South Indian vegetarian cuisine.

Filled with tempting recipes and beautiful photographs, Dakshin: Vegetarian Cooking from South India presents the finest cooking from the region. Drawn from the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh, and
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East: 120 Vegetarian and Vegan recipes from Bangalore to Beijing

Sodha Meera

4.1
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Enticing, inviting and delicious. Vegan and vegetarian dishes that are hard to resist (and why should you?' YOTAM OTTOLENGHI


Modern, vibrant, easy-to-make food. East is a must-have whether you're vegan, vegetarian, or simply want to eat more delicious meat-free food.

Drawing from her 'New Vegan' Guardian column, Meera Sodha's stunning new collection also features plenty
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Indian Kitchen: Secrets of Indian home cooking: Secrets of Indian home cooking

Maunika Gowardhan

4.1
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Nadiya's British Food Adventure: Beautiful British recipes with a twist. From our favourite Bake Off winner and author of Nadiya’s Family Favourites

Nadiya Hussain

4.1
The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook: Seasonal Home Cooking from South Asia's Best Spice Farms – 85 Recipes with Culinary Stories from Regenerative Farms book cover73

The Diaspora Spice Co. Cookbook: Seasonal Home Cooking from South Asia's Best Spice Farms – 85 Recipes with Culinary Stories from Regenerative Farms

Sana Javeri Kadri, Asha Loupy

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Eater's Best Spring 2026 CookbooksLos Angeles Times Best New Cookbooks for Spring 2026From Diaspora Spice Co., the progressive spice company rooted in flavor and equity, comes a cookbook celebrating beautiful, simple, and seasonal cooking with 85 recipes adapted from India and Sri Lanka’s best family spice farms.Diaspora Spice Co. sources the most flavorful, fresh spices in the world from 150 rege

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Instant Pot Indian Cookbook 2019: Top 300 Easy-To-Make Tasty Indian Recipes Made for Your Instant Pot Pressure Cooking at Anywhere, Save Time and Money, Have a Easy Life

Rajesh Singh

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With a rich history that goes back 8,000 years, Indian cuisine provides an amazing blend of exceptional flavors bound to give you a slice of heaven. With all the exotic ingredients, tongue-tingling flavors, and unfamiliar dishes, Indian cuisine can be, both, a bit intimidating and exciting for newcomers. The core aim of this book is to not only provide you with a plethora of different recipes to f
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Vegetarian Nirvana: A Passage To North Indian Cuisine

Santosh Jain

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Food of the Grand Trunk Road. Anirudh Arora and Hardeep Singh Kohli

Hardeep Singh Kohli, Anirudh Arora

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Pakistan: Recipes and Stories from Home Kitchens, Restaurants, and Roadside Stands book cover77

Pakistan: Recipes and Stories from Home Kitchens, Restaurants, and Roadside Stands

Maryam Jillani

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BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR: The?Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, NPR, Serious Eats, The Strategist The first major cookbook on Pakistani food, featuring breathtaking photography and over 100 delicious, achievable recipes. Thanks to shared borders with Afghanistan, China, India, and Iran, as well as a rich history of migration and trade, Pakistani cuisine draws upon a

Amazing Indian Desserts: Spectacular Spice-Infused Cakes, Custards and More book cover78

Amazing Indian Desserts: Spectacular Spice-Infused Cakes, Custards and More

Hetal Vasavada

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Former MasterChef Season 6 contestant Hetal Vasavada, nostalgic for the desserts she grew up with, shares a versatile selection of classic Indian recipes and creative interpretations. These desserts are more than one-note sweet treats; they’re complex creations, relying on a wide variety of spices, nuts and fruits for incredible flavor. Readers will learn to work with superb combinations like pist
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Anjum's Indian Vegetarian Feast

Anjum Anand

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In Anjum's Vegetarian Feast, Anjum Anand adapts the true flavours of India, with her trademark concern for healthy eating and a good diet, to make dishes that are light, bright, modern and balanced, providing all the protein and other nutrients we all need for perfect health
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Indian Food Made Easy

Anjum Anand

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Anjum Anand presents 70 mouthwatering Indian recipes, using fresh, local and seasonal produce with all ingredients readily available in supermarkets. Throughout the book there are tips and techniques as well as expert secrets from top Indian chefs.
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Masala Mamas: Recipes and stories from Indian women changing their communities through food and love

Elana Sztokma

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Bal's Quick & Healthy Indian

Bal Arneson

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Who says Indian cooking has to be complicated?

Following the national success of Everyday Indian, author Bal Arneson brings new twists to classic Indian meals in her new book Quick and Healthy Indian.

These health-conscious recipes will delight those looking for a new and easy way to enjoy low-fat meals while still exploring the adventurous side of cooking. Sure to please even the most sophisticated
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Eating Vegetarian: A Healthy Cookbook for Beginners

Alissa Bilden Warham and Steve Warham

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An introduction to vegetarian cooking your whole family will savour

Becoming a vegetarian just got easier and tastier. Eating Vegetarian features 75 meat-free recipes to get you going–plus tips on how to successfully make the switch, nutritional guidance, and more. Specifically designed for beginners, this vegetarian cookbook will help you on your road toward a healthy vegetarian diet full of plant
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Vibrant India: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes from Bangalore to Brooklyn

Chitra Agrawal

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From the acclaimed chef and owner of Brooklyn Delhi, a debut cookbook focused on the celebrated vegetarian fare of South India.
Lifelong vegetarian and chef Chitra Agrawal takes you on an epicurean journey to her mother's hometown of Bangalore and back to Brooklyn, where she adapts her family's South Indian recipes for home cooks. This particular style of Indian home cooking, often called the -yog
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Saffron Soul: Healthy, vegetarian heritage recipes from India

Mira Manek

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Indian food is an internationally popular cuisine, yet, unfairly, it is often considered to be heavy, rich and indulgent. With more people than ever before turning to healthy home cooking there has never been a better time for a fresh and lighter take on Indian food – one that Mira is creating with her vibrant and healthy cooking style.

Inspired by her mother and grandmother's cooking, Mira Manek'
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Princely Legacy Hyderabadi Cuisine

Pratibha Karan

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is an epitome of India's composite heritage. It is a confluence of several cultures and identities, Indian and foreign, but with a compelling identities. Indian and foreign, but with a compelling identity all its own, so wondrously compelling identity all its own 400 years ago by its founders, Sultan Mohammed Quli. His invocation for the city was that "millions of men and women of all castes, cree
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Vij's: Elegant and Inspired Indian Food

Meeru Dhalwala, Vikram Vij

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At Vij's, one of North America's most innovative Indian restaurants, owner Vikram Vij and his wife, Meeru Dhalwalla, use the freshest local ingredients and original ideas to create exciting new takes on the cuisines of India. Though far from traditional, the dishes remain true to one glorious hallmark of Indian cooking: fabulous spicing. Among the luscious offerings included here are yogurt and ta
Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking book cover88

Masala Lab: The Science of Indian Cooking

Krish Ashok

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Beyond Curry Indian Cookbook: A Culinary Journey Through India

Denise D'silva Sankhé

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Explore the Flavors of Indian Cooking with Mouth-Watering Recipes--From Authentic Regional Classics to Mainstream Fusion FavoritesJoin Mumbai-based food blogger Denise D'silva Sankhe on a culinary adventure of nostalgia and tasty surprises spanning the regions of India. In Beyond Curry, An Indian Cookbook, Denise shares her rich personal story of Indian cooking with profiles of unique regional In
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Curry Kitchen

Jacki Passmore

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Chetna's Indian Feasts: Everyday meals and easy entertaining book cover91

Chetna's Indian Feasts: Everyday meals and easy entertaining

Chetna Makan

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A collection of over 80 delicious Indian recipes to enjoy with friends and familyChetna Makan is the queen of Indian home cooking. An award-winning food writer, Chetna was first introduced to us on The Great British Bake Off and has since authored a number of bestselling cookbooks, combining her inventive flavours with a love of simple Indian cooking.In her newest recipe collection, Chetna provide

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Complete Book of Indian Cooking: 350 Recipes from the Regions of India

Suneeta Vaswani

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Classic recipes from the many regions of a diverse and culturally rich nation.

Indian cuisine is widely revered for its distinctive tastes and ingredients. The sheer size of India, combined with its history and religious diversity, is reflected in the country's cuisine. Complete Book of Indian Cooking provides hundreds of user-friendly and great-tasting recipes from all regions and cultures of this
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The Indian Spice Kitchen: Essential Ingredients and Over 200 Authentic Recipes

Monisha Bharadwaj

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Indian cuisine is a swirl of textures and flavors, mysteriously fiery yet beautifully subtle. This richly produced, wonderfully readable cookbook, The Indian Spice Kitchen, written by the food consultant to the celebrated London restaurant, Bombay Brasserie, takes you on an unforgettable culinary journey along the spice routes of India with over 200 authentic recipes and stunning color photographs
The Essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook: Authentic Flavors and Modern Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker book cover94

The Essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook: Authentic Flavors and Modern Recipes for Your Electric Pressure Cooker

Archana Mundhe

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This authorized collection of 75 simplified Indian classics for the immensely popular electric pressure cooker, the Instant Pot, is a beautifully photographed, easy-to-follow source for flavorful weekday meals.

The Essential Indian Instant Pot Cookbook is your source for quick, flavorful Indian favorites and contemporary weekday meals. With 75 well-tested recipes authorized by Instant Pot coverin
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The Cuisines of India: The Art and Tradition of Regional Indian Cooking

Smita Chandra, Sanjeev Chandra

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An exotic culinary journey through the rich and flavorful regions of India is filled with a wealth of unusual as well as traditional recipes accompanied by descriptons of locales, legends, history, and stunning illustrations. 20,000 first printing.
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Savour Mumbai: A Culinary Journey Through India's Melting Pot

Vikas Khanna

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Vikas Khanna's culinary journey started in Amritsar, but the city of Mumbai has also played an important role in his evolution as an arbiter of dining taste. This book is his tribute to Mumbai, which lays on the table a smorgasbord of delicious food options: Maharashtrian, Parsi, Gujarati, Konkan, street food and so much more. Food that is as multi-flavoured as the city itself. In the year that Kh
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Indian Bohra Cuisine: Vegeterian and Non-Vegetarian

Durri Bhalla

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Mangalorean Cuisine

Naresh P. Nayak, Chef Sudhakar Nayak, et al

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Flavours of Avadh: Journey from the Royal Banquet to the Corner Kitchen

Salma Husain

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Flavours of Avadh: Journey from the Royal Banquet to the Corner Kitchen is the story of food and cooking from the palaces to the pavement of the Avadh region in Uttar Pradesh. The book charts out a unique socio-cultural route down the decades, sketching out the exclusive regional food history of Lucknow and its neighbourhood, richly coloured with family anecdotes, local festivities, regional cultu
Ayurveda for Women: The Power of Food as Medicine with Recipes for Health and Wellness book cover100

Ayurveda for Women: The Power of Food as Medicine with Recipes for Health and Wellness

Emily L. Glaser RN C.Ay

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Eat to heal! This accessible Ayurveda book for women taps into the ancient wisdom and power of food as medicine with recipes, menus, and culinary remedies for dosha imbalances and common ailments. Practiced for over 5,000 years in India, Ayurveda is the health-care manual for balanced energy and finding relief from ailments that affect a woman’s well-being. Certified Ayurveda practitioner Emily L.