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Let These Books Help You Enjoy India's Cuisine

© Eve Carr

To help you enjoy your Indian meal-either in the U.S. or abroad-you'll want to have a copy of "Eat Smart in India, How to Decipher the Menu, Know the Market Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure," by Joan Peterson and Indu Menon.

As part of the popular Eat Smart series, this travel guide for food lovers is packed with helpful information that will make it easier for you to unravel the mysteries of India's diverse cuisine.

It's fascinating to learn about the history of Indian food-and how other nations have influenced its development (and how Indian cuisine has done the same). The discussion about the various regional foods is particularly helpful to let you zero in the type of food that you enjoy the most. Read this before you dine on Indian food, and you'll enjoy it even more.

As indicated on the book's cover, after reading it, you will

-- Eat and drink like a local

-- Experience foreign foods and know what they are

-- Unlock secrets of India's exotic menus and markets with two bilingual dictionaries

-- Get to the very heart of a culture through the cuisine

To make it even easier, the authors give you handy phrases to help you order-and decipher menu terms that are not familiar. As with other books in the Eat Smart series (Brazil, Turkey Indonesia, Mexico, Poland and Morocco), reading it helps you to not only enjoy your restaurant meal, but has easy recipes to help you start enjoying Indian food at home as well.

And the resources guide and bibliography are extensive-all the information you need to help you plan your trip to India!

To learn more about "Eat Smart in India," as well as the other books in this series, visit www.ginkogopress.com.

Learn How to Cook Indian Cuisine

If you are looking for an Indian cookbook, I heartily recommend Monica Bhide's book, "The Spice is Right, Easy Indian Cooking for Today," published by Callawind Publications, of Quebec, Canada. For more information about this book, call 514-685-9190 or visit www.callawind.com or e-mail at info@callwind.com Please see my previous article. To give you an idea of how thorough and well-thought out Monica's recipes are, check out this site where you can receive a mini course in Indian cuisine without leaving home.

I think this site sets a new standard for how recipes and cooking techniques can be presented to make learning about a new cuisine informative and interesting.

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