A review by kdahlo
Indian-Ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family by Priya Krishna

5.0

This books is awesome, I've already made a few recipes and I'm planning more. I read the book cover to cover since I really enjoyed hearing about the author's family and how the recipes were developed. No professional chefs were involved in the making of these recipes, so it's very accessible home cooking. I'm very picky about cookbooks since I get a lot of recipes online and don't like keeping a whole book around if I only need it for one or two recipes, but I'm strongly considering buying a copy of this book after I have to return it to the library. It's full of recipes that I would like to try out, and staple recipes I can imagine myself making over and over again. The book is also full of shortcuts, substitution guides and flowcharts to emulate the cooking style of the author's mother, the originator of so many of the recipes in the book. It also doesn't hurt that there are great illustrations, photographs and asides from various family members sprinkled throughout the book.