Mridula baljekar biography definition
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Baljekar, Mridula
PERSONAL:
Female.
ADDRESSES:
Office—Spice Route, 18A Thames St., Windsor, Berkshire SL4 1PL, England.
CAREER:
Spice Route (restaurant), Windsor, Berkshire, England, owner and chef; host of television cooking shows in Britain; consultant to food and spice manufacturers.
WRITINGS:
COOKBOOKS
30-Minute Vegetarian Indian Cookbook, Ecco Press (Hopewell, NJ), 1998.
Secrets from an Indian Kitchen, Pavilion (London, England), 2000.
Real Fast Indian Food, Metro, 2001.
Indian Cooking without the Fat: The Revolutionary New Way to Enjoy Healthy and Delicious Indian Food, Marlowe (New York, NY), 2001.
The Low-Fat Indian Vegetarian Cookbook, Thorsons (London, England), 2002.
South-East Asian Curry Cookbook, Southwater (London, England), 2003.
Curry Lover's Cookbook, Anness (London, England), 2003.
Curries of the World, Southwater (London, England), 2004.
Complete Indian Cooking, Lorenz (London, England), 2004.
500 Indian Recipes, Lorenz (London, England), 2005. Asian and Thai Curry, Southwater (London, England), 2005.
Great Indian Feasts: 150 Wonderful, Simple Recipes for Every Festive Occasion, John Blake (London, England), 2006.
SIDELIGHTS:
Chef Mridula Baljekar is the author of numerous cookbooks of Indian and Asian cuisine
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Indian Vegan & Vegetarian: 200 traditional plant-based recipes by Mridula Baljekar
We received a review copy of this book.
NotLeafy are a food-fixated pair, vegetarian since the mid '80s – if they're not cooking or eating it they're reading, talking or writing about it.
Glancing at the cover of Indian Vegan & Vegetarian by Mridula Baljekari, with its colourful floral and vegetal design, you could be forgiven for thinking this is a gardening book – it even has the typical heft of one. On opening it we actually said “wow” at the abundant photos of brightly coloured dishes blazing out of white, glossy pages with panels of text in a crisp font. Some may not like this noughties magazine look but it is eyesight friendly for those kitchens without spotlight arrays.
All recipes are on a single page so you won’t wind up trying to turn pages in a panic whilst wearing oven gloves. Vegan dishes are handily tagged with an icon at the bottom of the page.
Beyond initial impressions, what piqued our interest is that the recipes are sectioned into regions. Like most Brits, we started off our Indian food journey in Bangladeshi-run restaurants with their standard repertoire of vindaloos, kormas and tikka masala – and that was Indian food, right? As the UK’s culinary landscape
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