"Beautifully-designed... Indispensable information on ingredients and equipment... Manages to make even the most exotic and esoteric regional recipes accessible with straightforward methods and plain language."-Good Things
"Part of Phaidon's ridiculously popular culinary-bible series, it could mean you'll never need a takeaway again."-Sunday Times
"Phaidon have once again produced another wittily packaged, yet comprehensive cookbook... An excellent collection."-Chef
"Beautiful... 1,000 family recipes that have been collected from all over the subcontinent."-The Independent
"This professor-cum-Indian food scholar offers up a mammoth work that encompasses every region of the country and provides 1,000 recipes."-Publishers Weekly
"This is a favourite as it is one of the original guides to Indian cooking."-Atul Kochnar, Benares, ShortList
"A dazzling and all-encompassing account of Indian food from all over the continent."-Miles Thompson, Michael's Santa Monica