Kashmiri Cuisine: Through the Ages
Sarla Razdan is a cooking buff who now lives in New Delhi with her husband, M.K. Razdan, son Nitin and his wife Raka. All of them, including her daughter, Nidhi, yearn for Sarla s home-cooked food preferring to ignore the wide variety of cuisine available in the capital. Sarla Razdan was born in Srinagar and has lived in London, New York, and Delhi, never leaving her love for Kashmiri cooking. Because of her husband s profession as a journalist, a number of celebrities have dined with the family. These include Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Lata Mangeshkar, Sachin Tendulkar, Sunil Dutt to name a few. When she s not trying a new recipe, Sarla plays with the new addition to the family  Calvin, the Labrador and Hobbes, the Golden Retriever, whom she simply cannot do without!