Introduction

Buried somewhere deep in Indian customs and traditions is the love for certain civil pursuits. As are the pursuits of civilized people. Among them are the pursuits of music, poetry, the audio visual arts, excellence in professional endeavors and instilling colour in a myriad things like tapestry, carpets, quilts, festivals and events of different kinds. Quite like those pursuits is the pursuit of culinary excellence. The Indian subcontinent has yielded a rather staggering array of food varieties. Food preparations that can suit any palette or any eating habits. Nowhere else in the world can be found as vast and as variety filled a culinary array as exists in India.

Indian foods are of many kinds, there exist many varieties in veg. non-veg, sweet dishes and pickels. Food varies from region to region in this great urn of diversity called India. Each region has something to offer by way of food.

From the snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas in Kashmir to the beaches of the southern shores of India, cuisine arts abound. Indian cuisine is vast and varied. There is really no such thing as putting things in a linguistic nutshell. Understandably it could not be true that something has evolved over time spans of centuries would be possible to describe in a single line. The Indian ardor is for a great number of things now in modern day corporate India. But the passion that they have for creating simply exotic food borders on obsession. The everyday Indian cook is very particular about ultimate outcomes. It is important that the cuisine possess all of the desired qualities and also everything that its history and fame dictate.

It has been our effort to present authentic Indian cuisine as it is cooked and served in India. Curry & spices details traditions in Indian cookery. Recipes that have come down the centuries, more latter day ones and also variations on originals. All very much the culinary tastes of India. Something to suit both the cook and the connoisseur.

Curry & Spices comprises over one thousand traditional Indian food recipes emanating from different regions of the country. This section presents a choice of Kashmiri, Punjabi, Moghlai, Bengali, Gujarati, Maharashtrian, Goan and South Indian cuisine, categorised under veg, non-veg, sweet dishes and pickles.