Curry Club Favourite Restaurant Curries (paperback)
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Curry Club Favourite Restaurant Curries (paperback)
Published by Piatkus, 10/88
192 pages + 8 colour plates, 232mm x 155mm.
Paperback, ISBN: 0 86188 868 5
ISBN: 978 0 86 188 868 9 (later reprint, different cover design)
Pat Chapman's second cookery book is the follow up volume to Pat's first book, the best-selling Indian Restaurant Cookbook. Favourite Restaurant Cookbook has 150 new and different recipes collected from the chefs at top curry restaurants worldwide, enhanced by 8 colour plates.
The intro, gives a unique insight into the workings of the curry house.
Some of the restaurants:
Bombay Brasserie - London, Bukharra - Delhi, Curry Fever - Leicester, Ganges - Exeter, Raffles - Singapore, Rajpoot - Bath, Rong Mahal - Adelaide, Safeer - Nairobi, Veeraswamy - London
The book explains the very basics of Curry cooking, using the right utensils, storing spices, roasting spices, buying the appropriate ingredients for your store cupboard. It details how to make the various pastes and purees. The book contains all the popular recipes that you find in the restaurants.
75,000 were published in paperback.
Detailed contents: Introduction. The Restaurants, Useful Information,Curry Bases and Basics, Starters, Meat, Chicken, Fish, Vegetables, Rice and Bread, Accompaniments, Desserts, The Store Cupboard, Glossary, Index.
Pat can sign it to you personally if you request it.
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A review on Amazon US by Peter Eaton
January 6, 2000
A pretty cool collection of hot recipes....
Like quite a few of Pat Chapmans other books, this one concentrates mostly on recipes, with a fairly sparse section on ingredients and methods. However, this is A Good Thing, if you already own one of the definitive works such as the author's The Curry Bible. The work, therefore, stands on the strength of its recipes. And it stands pretty tall on those. From the standards ( Chicken Madras ) to the downright yucky ( lambs brain curry), the recipes are easy to follow and as expected from this source, extremely tasty. Each recipe comes from a well-known curry house, mostly in the UK, but a few from the sub-continent, and the USA. Each is also accompanied with Pats' anecdote about the restaurant, which are frankly pretty tedious. Overall, an excellent, and pretty inexpensive collection of damn good recipes!
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Other editions of Favourite Restaurant Curries are available:
Click here to view the unillustrated economy paperback version of this book.
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Click here to view the US paperback version of this book entitled Homestyle Indian Cooking.
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Click here to view the paperback version of this book entitled Modern Indian Cooking.
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Click here to see whether a first edition volume of this book is available.
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