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A review by thefourthvine
Indian-Ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family by Priya Krishna
4.0
I wish more people would write these kinds of recipe books — the collected recipes of a family, the How The Food Gets On The Table Every Damn Day kind of recipes. This is the food culture of a single family, and it’s *fascinating*. I love it. It’s also what I think of as home fusion: the recipes so many of us have that came from somewhere else, that we make where we live now, with equipment and maybe ingredients our grandparents wouldn’t recognize.
Will I make all these recipes? Nope. I have made a couple, though, and they’ve all been good so far. And I have a few more earmarked. Most of these recipes rely on things I have around the house or can easily get, too, which is nice; no buying a half pound of an ingredient off of Amazon and then using like two tablespoons of it and letting it slowly molder on the shelf. But this isn’t a classic cookbook that lives or dies solely by the utility of the recipes; like I said, it’s a family history, and worth reading even if none of these recipes are your jam. (But do try Priya’s Dal, though. I read that recipe and went, “This is going to be SO BLAH, but she says it’s the best recipe in the book so I will TRY it.” It was truly excellent.)
A fun book, totally worth your time if you’re interested in family cooking. (If you’re interested just in true Indian cooking, though, this isn’t the one; the title is telling you exactly what this book is.)
Will I make all these recipes? Nope. I have made a couple, though, and they’ve all been good so far. And I have a few more earmarked. Most of these recipes rely on things I have around the house or can easily get, too, which is nice; no buying a half pound of an ingredient off of Amazon and then using like two tablespoons of it and letting it slowly molder on the shelf. But this isn’t a classic cookbook that lives or dies solely by the utility of the recipes; like I said, it’s a family history, and worth reading even if none of these recipes are your jam. (But do try Priya’s Dal, though. I read that recipe and went, “This is going to be SO BLAH, but she says it’s the best recipe in the book so I will TRY it.” It was truly excellent.)
A fun book, totally worth your time if you’re interested in family cooking. (If you’re interested just in true Indian cooking, though, this isn’t the one; the title is telling you exactly what this book is.)