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THE CLASSIC COOKBOOK THAT HELPED MAKE SOUTHERN VEGETARIAN CUISINE ACCESSIBLE AND EASY-TO-COOK FOR ONE AND ALL. South Indian vegetarian cuisine is subtly flavoured, yet rich in variety. The spices are so delicately and judiciously blended that the best South Indian food always retains the basic essence of its flavour. Therein lies its speciality. From the nutritional point of view, the food is perfectly balanced, low in cholesterol and fat, and not necessarily spicy. Chandra Padmanabhan, an expert cook, has been dishing up delicious meals for her family and friends for more than twenty-five years. Over the years, she has experimented with various styles of vegetarian cooking and ingeniously adapted them to suit every palate. Dakshin is a compilation of her favourite recipes, and several years after it was first published, it continues to be the best introduction to vegetarian South Indian cuisine.
About the Book AN EASY-TO-FOLLOW GUIDE TO MAKING ALL KINDS OF DOSAI/DOSA Dosai features a hundred different recipes from the four South Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. This book celebrates the many forms of Dosa, or ‘Dosai’ as it is originally known. Finding mention in sixth-century Tamil Sangam Literature, the Dosai is an ancient recipe, but contemporary in its versatility and its wholesomeness. Though rice is the principal crop in southern India, the Dosai is not limited by this ingredient. Through its recipes, the book illustrates how other constituents, like ragi, millet, wheat, black gram, green gram, semolina, ripe jackfruit, yams, okra, potato, r...
Here, at last, is the answer to the pleas of popular cookbook writer Chandra Padmanabhan's myriad fans-a collection of their favourite recipes from her previous three bestselling cookbooks, exploring the gamut of South Indian meals served in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnatka
From the best-selling author of Dakshin comes a new book on South Indian cuisine containing a hundred authentic recipes from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Familiar dishes such as appam, dosai, vada and poriyal as well as more unusual ones such as verum arisi adai (lacy rice pancakes) are featured alongside recipes for regional specialities including Maddhur vadai and Palakkad adai. Preparation time for each dish, including the time taken for fermentation, soaking, preparation and the actual cooking, is clearly mentioned so that you can plan your meal almost to the second!
In her third cookbook, the author of Dakshin and Southern Spice offers a new and exciting range of traditional vegetarian cooking from the kitchens of South India. This book covers rare, unusual but easy-to-follow recipes from Kongunad, North Arcot in Tamil Nadu, Rajahmundry in Andhra Pradesh and the cuisine of the Hebbar Iyengar community of Karnataka. Chandra Padmanabhan takes the novice and the expert cook alike on a journey through different cooking styles in this authoritative and warm tour of very special household recipes.
Gandhi was perhaps the most influential yet misunderstood figure of the twentieth century. Drawing close attention to his last years, this book explores the marked change in his understanding of the acceptance of non-violence by Indians. It points to a startling discovery Gandhi made in the years preceding India's Independence and Partition: the struggle for freedom which he had all along believed to be non-violent was in fact not so. He realised that there was a causal relationship between the path of illusory ahimsa, which had held sway during the freedom struggle, and the violence that erupted thereafter during Partition. In the second edition of this much-acclaimed volume, Chandra revisits Gandhi's philosophy to explain how and why the phenomenon of the Mahatma has been understood and misunderstood through the years. Calling for a rethink of the very nature and foundation of modern India, this book throws new light on Gandhian philosophy and its far-reaching implications for the world today. It will interest not only scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, politics and philosophy, but also lay readers.
Recipes treasured by more than three generations of women The first volume of Samaithu Paar was published in 1951. More than just a cookery book, it was intended to serve as a manual for daily use. Over the years, those who did not find time to learn cooking in the traditional way from their mothers have used the three volumes of Samaithu Paar to set up home and manage kitchen all over the world. The Best of Samaithu Paar brings together 100 most-loved recipes chosen from the three-volume original. Maintaining the simplicity of language, easy-to-follow directions and the adherence to the smallest details, the recipes have been suitably revised and adapted using universal measures of cups and spoons and modern utensils and appliances in place of the more traditional ones. Recipes range from the basic idli, dosai, sambar and rasam to their many variations that are not so familiar to all Indians. The book also includes specialities like Moar Kuzhambu, Mysore Rasam, Pongal, Murukku and Jangiri, as well as pachadis and pickles. A must-have for all those who enjoy traditional Indian cuisine.
In the 1970s, the author was in her mid-twenties and living in Bombay. She moved to New York in search of the American dream, but it was in Europe that she believed her quest for contentment would end.
In August 1930, on a boat trip from Bombay to England, the young Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated that certain stars could end their lives by collapsing indefinitely to a point - to nowhere. This idea brought Chandra into conflict with Sir Arthur Eddington, the grand old man of British astrophysics, who publicly ridiculed the idea. EMPIRE OF THE STARS teases out the major implications of this infamous event, setting it against the backdrop of the turbulent growth of astrophysics, and provides a unique window on our unfolding view of the cosmos. In its clash of personalities, epochs and cultures, the story reveals the deep-seated psychological and philosophical prejudices at work in the acceptance and rejection of new scientific ideas. Beautifully written, artfully constructed, EMPIRE OF THE STARS is a serious book but one which also deals with classic themes -- a lone man struggling against the establishment, intellectual rivalry and the highs and lows of great individuals set against the broader sweep of history.
Second comprehensive volume focuses on anti-inflammatory nutraceuticals and their role in prevention and therapy of various chronic diseases. Food and drug administration (FDA) approved drugs such as steroids, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), statins and metformin have been shown to modulate inflammatory pathways, but their long-term intake has been associated with numerous side effects. Thus dietary agents which can modulate inflammatory pathways in humans, are likely to exhibit enormous potential. Leading experts describe the latest results of anti-inflammatory nutraceuticals and their role in prevention and therapy of various chronic diseases.