Cooking at Home with Pedatha (Best Vegetarian Book in the World - Gourmand Winner)
My husband was in India for a week and brought back Cooking at home with Pedatha . What a great job you ve done on the book! It s beautifully designed and the glorious pictures really bring the cuisine to life. But the most memorable photos are of Pedatha herself. They capture her persona beautifully. The visual glossary at the end is a great idea. I congratulate you all on a wonderful book. --SUNEETA VASWANI Cookbook Author, USACooking at home with Pedatha is a book that gives the wonderful whiff of everyday cooking in a traditional Telugu household. It is indeed a brave effort by Jigyasa Giri and Pratibha Jain because I know it is not easy to keep things simple which they have done effortlessly. And it is this very subtlety that makes the book special. It brilliantly combines the flavours and textures of local ingredients to stimulate the senses and satiate the palate. --SANJEEV KAPOOR Author & Chef extraordinairePedatha's cookbook of vegetarian Andhra recipes promises to revive a fast-receding world of unhurried and labour-intensive kitchens...If you are one of those who enjoy cooking even though it takes time, you'll find that the final results are worth the grind...The book also reflects the Andhra penchant to convert nearly every conceivable edible item into a pachchadi (chutney). You can take your pick of spinach, brinjal, dosakai, the round yellow cucumber, yellow pumpkin, ginger, coconut, onion and of course, mango and chilli and the famous gongura. Try the karivepaku pachchadi it gets its speckled-green-and-red good looks from green curry leaves...there is a clutch of recipes featuring yoghurt with which you can cool off. Other sections include pappus (dal with greens and vegetables), podis/kaarams (powders meant to be used with rice and ghee, or as accompaniments to various snacks), rice and some sweets. A very useful feature that other cookbooks rarely mention is the order in which ingredients for the tempering have to be used. Good photography, pleasant graphics and pastel design... this book is a welcome accomplishment. --The Hindu Business Line, Friday Jan 27, 2006