LAZZATNAMA: RECIPES OF INDIA

by Pushpesh Pant

  • Category Non-Fiction
  • Format Paperback
  • Imprint Rupa
  • Price 395
  1. ISBN: 978-93-6156-815-2
  2. Pages: 288 pages
  3. Date: 5th June 2024

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Would you like to up your game in the kitchen and make dishes from across India at your home?

Immerse yourself in this book by renowned food critic and historian Pushpesh Pant. He welcomes you to a world of Indian cooking with its special tastes, smells and sights. With recipes spanning the length and breadth of India, Lazzatnama captures the diverse culinary landscape of a country rich in exemplary cuisines. From the beguiling sweetness of Gujarati kadhi and the rollicking flavours of meen biryani to the deliciously enfolding comfort of gulab ki kheer and the calming coolness of bael ka sherbet, this cuisine-based chronicle of a culture-rich country is sure to entice you to not just savour these delicacies—each with its own wonderfully specific recipe—but also enter your kitchens to make them.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Born in 1946, Pushpesh Pant was homeschooled and later he studied in Nainital and Delhi. He has lived in Delhi since 1965 and is passionate about Indian cuisines, music and poetry. He taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) for 40 years and has written books on food, travel and culture in English and Hindi.