Curry Club Balti Curry Cookbook (hardback)
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Published by Piatkus, 6/93
160 pages + 8 colour plates, 230mm x 155 mm.
Hardback, ISBN: 0 7499 1214 6
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100 recipes. This, the first on its subject, is the book which helped the style of cooking from the Midlands sweep the nation. Became No 1 Sunday Times best-seller with 255,000 sold. Historical and background information. Store cupboard list. Glossary
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June 20, 1999
A review on Amazon US by A Customer
Unlike a lot of Indian cook books this delivers restaurant style recipes and techniques as opposed to traditional home cooking. It contains a very tasty basic balti spice mix and a selection of variations on the main balti theme. Not only does it have all this but also a good introduction to the basic Indian techniques such as bargar, bhuna and the like. An excellent introduction to Indian cooking, which includes a lot of revealing history of UK Indian restaurant cuisine. However some of the recipes tend to be a bit "samey" as they use the basic balti masala. This is a minor criticism of an excellent book. I also recommend the other Curry Club titles, especially the "Curry Bible".
A review on Amazon US
by William D. Colburn (Socorro, NM USA)
I have one problem with this cookbook: the word Balti. Every recipe has the word Balti in the title. The first sentance of every recipe uses the word Balti in it. And those aren't the only uses of the word. The overall effect is an annoying overload of the word Balti. Batli Balti Balti Balti Balti...it never stops. Beyond that, it seems to be rather nice. It still gets five stars.
Pat says: What's this, Faulty Towers, with John (Basil Fawlty) Cleese? What do you expect of a Balti Cookbook ... The Taj Mahal? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? a Herd of Wildebeasts? Parrots? I will retitle it the Parrot Cookbook at once!!! (But thanks William, for the five stars anyway.)
