The Calcutta Kitchen by Parkes, Simon
The Calcutta Kitchen by Parkes, Simon

The Calcutta Kitchen

"What you've got to remember about us Bengalis," a good friend once told Simon Parkes, "is that...
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The Calcutta Kitchen by Parkes, Simon

The Calcutta Kitchen

$67.83
The Calcutta Kitchen by Parkes, Simon

The Calcutta Kitchen

$67.83
Author: Simon Parkes
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
"What you've got to remember about us Bengalis," a good friend once told Simon Parkes, "is that we're only really interested in three things: educating our children, reading books, and food." Bengalis have a passion for good food--its authenticity, its freshness, its part in social occasions, and the pleasure of serving it at the table. The Calcutta Kitchen captures the essence of those pleasures through the evocative narrative of the BBC Food Programme's Simon Parkes, the recipes of renowned chef Udit Sarkhel, and the pictures of award-winning photographer Jason Lowe. Calcuttans know and adore fish, vegetables, and desserts in particular. They have a curiosity about food that never fades, and so they have embraced influences from around the world--most notably the English, Armenians, Jews, Tibetans, Chinese, Burmese, and Portuguese. Calcutta, and this book, has a taste of each of these cuisines. Until recently it was nigh-on impossible to taste Bengali cooking unless you were invited to a private home, yet this is some of the most sophisticated food in India. With its inexhaustible roll-call of fish and vegetables, its pungency derived from the widespread use of mustard (both seeds and oil) and its tempering with a blend of five spices known as panch phoron, it is an evolved yet accessible cuisine. The Calcutta Kitchen brings you recipes from one of the best-known Bengali chefs, Udit Sarkhel, and snapshots of the fish ponds, markets, artisan food producers, restaurants, clubs, cooks, gourmet, and street foods that play a part in the city's rich culinary culture.

Author: Simon Parkes, Udit Sarkhel
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: 01/01/2007
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.04lbs
Size: 10.22h x 8.22w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781566566711


Award: Independent Publisher Book Awards - Gold Medal Winner

About the Author
Parkes, Simon: - Simon Parkes is a presenter on The Food Programme on BBC Radio 4, and won the Glenfiddich Award for Radio in 2004 for his program Bombay Lunchboxes. Simon also writes for The Calcutta Telegraph and the BBC Good Food magazine, and has spent a year living in Calcutta, reporting on food for BBC Radio 4. Udit Sarkhel has four London restaurants: Calcutta Notebook, Sarkhel's Indian Cuisine (awarded a Bib Gourmand by Michelin), Sarkhels of East Sheen, and Dalchini. He has been classed as one of the top five chefs in Britain by Waitrose Food Monthly.

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