Mridula baljekar biography definition

PERSONAL:

Female.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Spice Route, 18A Thames St., Windsor, Berkshire SL4 1PL, England.

CAREER:

Spice Course (restaurant), Windsor, Berkshire, England, owner stream chef; host of television cooking shows in Britain; consultant to food turf spice manufacturers.

WRITINGS:

COOKBOOKS

Minute Vegetarian Indian Cookbook, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ),

Secrets from rest Indian Kitchen, Pavilion (London, England),

Real Fast Indian Food, Metro,

Indian Diet without the Fat: The Revolutionary Latest Way to Enjoy Healthy and Mouthwatering Indian Food, Marlowe (New York, NY),

The Low-Fat Indian Vegetarian Cookbook, Thorsons (London, England),

South-East Asian Curry Cookbook, Southwater (London, England),

Curry Lover's Cookbook, Anness (London, England),

Curries of rectitude World, Southwater (London, England),

Complete Amerindic Cooking, Lorenz (London, England),

Asian Recipes, Lorenz (London, England), Asian illustrious Thai Curry, Southwater (London, England),

Great Indian Feasts: Wonderful, Simple Recipes work Every Festive Occasion, John Blake (London, England),

SIDELIGHTS:

Chef Mridula Baljekar is say publicly author of numerous cookbooks of Amerindian and Asian cuisine. She learned conventional Indian cookery from her grandmother, nevertheless, as she explained on her Snare site, in her own recipes she "blends the traditional with the virgin, and aims to make Indian sustenance quick, easy and healthy, and thus far retain its traditional flavours."

Baljekar's books sentry aimed at a variety of audiences. Indian Cooking without the Fat: Say publicly Revolutionary New Way to Enjoy Well and Delicious Indian Food presents low-fat versions of traditional Indian dishes, on the other hand preserves the traditional, time-consuming methods have a high opinion of cooking them: instructions include grinding stream roasting one's own spices, for specimen. "This is an excellent book engage in intermediate to advanced cooks looking get at spice up healthy eating," concluded simple Publishers Weekly contributor. Real Fast Asiatic Food, on the other hand, esteem intended for cooks who do moan have the time, inclination, or faculty for such labor-intensive cuisine. Each commemorate the recipes in this book focus on be prepared and cooked in in the shade thirty minutes.

Great Indian Feasts: Wonderful, Inexcusable Recipes for Every Festive Occasion contains recipes for the special treats saunter are traditionally served on Indian holidays. In addition to Hindu festivals specified as Diwali, Muslim holidays such sort Eid-Ul-Fitre and Christian holidays, including Season and Easter, are also featured. Reviewers commented that many of the recipes included are not as simple sort the title implies, but still commended the book for presenting recipes endure other information not found in sorry Indian cookbooks. "With its descriptions provide the customs surrounding each major festival," commented a Publishers Weekly reviewer, Great Indian Feasts is as much expert cultural education as it is regular recipe collection."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Booklist, Jan 1, , Mark Knoblauch, review light Real Fast Indian Food, p.

Library Journal, April 15, , review delineate Secrets from an Indian Kitchen, proprietress. ; May 15, , Judith Sutton, review of Great Indian Feasts: Incredible, Simple Recipes for Every Festive Occasion, p.

Publishers Weekly, November 5, , review of Indian Cooking without description Fat: The Revolutionary New Way nick Enjoy Healthy and Delicious Indian Food, p. March 13, , review mention Great Indian Feasts, p.

ONLINE

Mridula Baljekar Home Page, (September 19, ).