Review: ToC needs Work, but Great Variety and Instructions
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 23, 2014
Oh, I love curry. In fact, I dig all manner of Indian dishes but frankly knew next to nothing about Indian cusine. A particular aspect I really appreciated is the basic introduction Michael E. Reese uses to highlight individual Indian cuisine components. That alone edified me - I knew I loved spinach masala yet couldn't say exactly what it was until now.Some of the recipes are a bit too involved with specialized ingredients for my own cooking, yet there are a great many that are easily attainable for a casual cook like me, the Pepper Chicken and Red Lentil Curry to name a couple. The format is clear, though best viewed in Portrait orientation, and free of any bizzare spellings/punctuation that I have seen in other Kindle cookbooks. The Table of Contents is a bit poor, not giving links to the individual recipes but to "Meal" headings... and I use the term meal loosely as it may be counterintuitive for some to find dishes like Pepper Chicken under Breakfast Dishes.Approximately fifty percent of the book is given over to soups and deserts, but the over all variety of dishes are good, touching on all forms of meat and seafood spotlights. All in all, in spite of the somewhat awkward navigation due to the ToC setup, INDIAN COOKING IN 30 MINUTES is going into my personal cooking collection.