Fire and Spice: Parsi Cooking - Softcover

Westrip, Joyce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1897959419 ISBN 13: 9781897959411

Publisher: Serif, 2003

Synopsis

There are few books available on Parsi cuisine in English. Joyce Westrip introduces this aromatic Indian cuisine that is based upon the culinary habits of the Parsis who left Iran some 1300 years ago to settle along India's western coastline.

About this title

About the Author:

Joyce Westrip is the author of the highly praised Moghul Cooking: India's Courtly Cuisine and An ABC of Indian Food. She lives in Perth, Western Australia.

From Publishers Weekly:

Westrip, in this follow-up to her book of recipes for Indian nobility, begins with a brief overview of the Parsi people: descendents of Persians, the Parsi were Zoroastrians who left what is now Iran over 1,000 years ago and settled in India. The recipes here are spicy and intriguing, recognizably Indian but unique in their approach. Though the Parsi don't have the same dietary restrictions as their Muslim and Hindu neighbors, they do shun beef and pork out of respect. Their fondness for goat shows in Kid with Potatoes; for offal in Lambs Tongue and Lentil; and, in the form of patties or spiced and pickled, for a "pungent"-possibly "offensive"-type of fish known as Bombay Duck. A selection of rice dishes and desserts is less distinctively Parsi, but delicious. Unfortunately, Westrip does not include explanations of common Indian ingredients, such as ghee. The only other caveat goes to dieters: the Parsi fondness for frying is fully evident here. However, as Westrip points out, this is the only Parsi cookbook in print in America, so it will surely be of great interest to cooks looking to spice up their Indian standards.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Serif
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1897959419
• ISBN 13: 9781897959411
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 187