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India: Cookbook by Pushpesh PantRead about the other cookbooks on the list.
Written by a culinary academic, who lives and works in Delhi, this beautiful book with its rice-sack-inspired cover is the Indian Silver Spoon. There are 1,000 family recipes that have been collected from all over the subcontinent and carefully edited to ensure they are easy to follow and achievable in Western kitchens.
Also see: Kate Colquhoun's top 10 unusual cookbooks; the ten best children's cookbooks; the 10 best cookbooks of 2009; and Alton Brown's five best cookbooks.
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