Deepa's Secrets

Deepa's Secrets

Author: Deepa Thomas

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-07-04

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1510718990

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Winner of the 2018 James Beard Foundation Book Awards Winner of the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards Finalist for the IACP Awards Shortlisted for the NCIBA Book Awards, Best Cookbook A journey from old traditions to modern Indian cooking with deliciously simple and gut-healing recipes that leave you feeling fulfilled—rather than full. Upon learning that rice and bread were the culprits for her husband’s Type 2 diabetes, Deepa Thomas deconstructed and reinvented her native Indian cuisine. Deepa made anew seventy slow carb recipes, incorporating time-saving Western cooking techniques, breaking-news research on gut health and weight loss, and Ayurvedic wisdoms ("When diet is right, medicine is of no need; and when diet is wrong, medicine is of no use."). After six months of cooking and eating "New Indian," Deepa lost twenty pounds and freed her husband from a ten-year routine of insulin shots. Part cookbook and memoir, Deepa’s Secrets introduces breakthrough slow carb and gut-healing recipes that are simple and nutrient-packed, without sacrificing its rich South Asian flavors. On a mission to demystify and make healthy an “exotic” cuisine, Deepa shares shortcuts and techniques that will make "New Indian" everyday fare. Bold and intimate, Deepa’s Secrets will undoubtedly change your cooking, and quite possibly your life, featuring East-to-West recipes such as: Ralph’s Garlicky Spinach a la Dal Ammachi’s Claypot Fish Molee General Joseph’s Five-Star Chicken Batons New Indian Cacciatore Masala Omelet The author is donating her royalties to FoodCorps, a nonprofit that connects children to healthy food in American schools.


My Indian Cookbook

My Indian Cookbook

Author: Amandip Uppal

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1681881144

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All the rich flavors and exquisite dishes of India are now accessible to homecooks everywhere. My Indian Cookbook is a relaxed, present-day spice journey that has a confident and fresh approach towards cooking with ease. It allows your taste buds to be taken on a journey where the myths are exposed and the message simplified, so that you can be a master of your own spice kitchen. My Indian Cookbook is a primer, refresher and introduction to Indian cuisine with a sensibility for hectic schedules. It brings Indian cookery up-to-date and will provide you with the basics and inspiration to forge your own path and try something new. You don’t need to re-create huge opulent feasts. You can make one dish to add to the rest of the meal or dip in and out of the book as the mood suits you. Pantry stapes, a must-have spice list, alternative ingredients, step-by-step illustrations for tricky techniques, and a menu planner accompany an exquisite yet easy-to-follow recipe collection. Sample recipes Light bites: carrot and chickpea pancakes, fish fritters, coriander and chili crab balls, sesame and ginger skewers, and more. Vegetables and lentils: chana masala, Baigan bharta, dhal makhani, beetroot curry Fish, Meat and Poultry: Masalas roast lamb, mussels in chili, ginger and curry lead broth, saffron pot roast chicken, fish in tamarind sauce Breads and rice: mint parantha, seeded naan bread, mixed vegetable roti, onion and coriander stuffed naan Salads: tomato pickled ginger side salad, bean and lentil, steamed green beans in tomato mustard dressing Pickles and chutneys: cucumber, carrot and mint chutney, South Indian eggplant pickle, fruit chutney, apple pickle. Desserts and drinks: pistachio kulfi, almond and saffron cake, creamy honey and raisin vermicelli pots, masala chai, chili hot chocolate. This comprehensive book is a modern and familiar collection of accessible recipes that should be shared over and over again to inspire friends and family. Whether you’ve never had Indian food or want to make your favorite dishes at home, this is the perfect cookbook.


Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Author: Deepa Anappara

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2020-02-04

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0593129202

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Discover the “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) debut novel that “announces the arrival of a literary supernova” (The New York Times Book Review),“a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate” (Chigozie Obioma). WINNER OF THE EDGAR® AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • The Washington Post • NPR • The Guardian • Library Journal In a sprawling Indian city, a boy ventures into its most dangerous corners to find his missing classmate. . . . Through market lanes crammed with too many people, dogs, and rickshaws, past stalls that smell of cardamom and sizzling oil, below a smoggy sky that doesn’t let through a single blade of sunlight, and all the way at the end of the Purple metro line lies a jumble of tin-roofed homes where nine-year-old Jai lives with his family. From his doorway, he can spot the glittering lights of the city’s fancy high-rises, and though his mother works as a maid in one, to him they seem a thousand miles away. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line plunges readers deep into this neighborhood to trace the unfolding of a tragedy through the eyes of a child as he has his first perilous collisions with an unjust and complicated wider world. Jai drools outside sweet shops, watches too many reality police shows, and considers himself to be smarter than his friends Pari (though she gets the best grades) and Faiz (though Faiz has an actual job). When a classmate goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from TV to find him. He asks Pari and Faiz to be his assistants, and together they draw up lists of people to interview and places to visit. But what begins as a game turns sinister as other children start disappearing from their neighborhood. Jai, Pari, and Faiz have to confront terrified parents, an indifferent police force, and rumors of soul-snatching djinns. As the disappearances edge ever closer to home, the lives of Jai and his friends will never be the same again. Drawing on real incidents and a spate of disappearances in metropolitan India, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line is extraordinarily moving, flawlessly imagined, and a triumph of suspense. It captures the fierce warmth, resilience, and bravery that can emerge in times of trouble and carries the reader headlong into a community that, once encountered, is impossible to forget.


Chinese Heritage Cooking

Chinese Heritage Cooking

Author: Christopher Tan

Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd

Published: 2012-05-15

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 9814435066

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This book shows how to prepare traditional Chinese food with ease and is perfect for beginners. Seasoned cooks will likewise find joy in perusing these recipes, which are accompanied by informative descriptions and explanations. This book is truly a collector's item for anyone who enjoys immersing in the classic flavours of Chinese cuisine. It brims with historical and cultural significance, which will not only engage, inform and enlighten, but readers will also be awed and be inspired to delve into the joy of recreating wonderful meals from these treasured recipes


Moghul Cooking

Moghul Cooking

Author: Joyce P. Westrip

Publisher: Serif Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781897959466

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The Moghuls gave India the Taj Mahal and, as this ground-breaking book shows, they also transformed the country's cooking. Duck with cherries, pomegranate soup, apricot-flavoured lamb, aubergines with tamarind, date halva: India's Moghul invaders revolutionised the cooking of the subcontinent by bringing from Muslim Persia a refined and sophisticated Middle Eastern cuisine and combining it with Indian spices and ingredients to produce some of the world's boldest food combinations and most exquisite recipes. Moghul Cooking is the first ever book on the subject and offers the reader a truly mouth-watering selection of dishes. Covering a wide range of recipes from snacks and soups to breads and rice dishes, Joyce Westrip, who was born and brought up in India, also tells the reader how to make sherbets and other drinks and the chutneys and other accompaniments essential for a complete Moghul meal. Moghul Cooking is not just a book packed with delicious recipes - it is also a fascinating contribution to our understanding of culinary history. The Moghuls are famous for giving India its greatest architectural monuments, for the refinement of their court and its arts: Joyce Westrip establishes that their gifts to Indian cuisine were every bit as important. Book jacket.


Indian Cuisine Diabetes Cookbook

Indian Cuisine Diabetes Cookbook

Author: May Abraham Fridel

Publisher: American Diabetes Association

Published: 2017-05-31

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1580406912

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The Indian Cuisine Diabetes Cookbook brings the taste, aroma, and health benefits of basic and exotic Indian spices into the kitchen for those with diabetes or prediabetes, or those simply looking to eat and feel better. Delicious Indian dishes that are packed with flavor and fiber-rich ingredients are simpler than you think, and the quick, easy-to-make meals have all been adapted to meet the guidelines of the American Diabetes Association. Emphasizing a healthy eating philosophy, this cookbook helps the home cook make non-processed meals from scratch in no time at all. Each recipe has been carefully crafted to deliver authentic and bold Indian flavors while using practical techniques and tips for the modern cook who doesn't have the time nor the complicated tools used in traditional Indian cooking. This collection is a culinary trip through the flavors and spices of India.


Chateau of Secrets

Chateau of Secrets

Author: Melanie Dobson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-05-13

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1476746125

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A courageous young noblewoman risks her life to hide French resistance fighters; seventy years later, her granddaughter visits the family’s abandoned chateau and uncovers shocking secrets from the past. Gisèle Duchant guards a secret that could cost her life. Tunnels snake through the hill under her family’s medieval chateau in Normandy. Now, with Hitler’s army bearing down, her brother and several friends are hiding in the tunnels, resisting the German occupation of France. But when German soldiers take over the family’s château, Gisèle is forced to host them as well—while harboring the resistance fighters right below their feet. Taking in a Jewish friend’s baby, she convinces the Nazis that it is her child, ultimately risking everything for the future of the child. When the German officers begin to suspect her deception, an unlikely hero rescues both her and the child. A present day story weaves through the past one as Chloe Sauver, Gisèle’s granddaughter, arrives in Normandy. After calling off her engagement with a political candidate, Chloe pays a visit to the chateau to escape publicity and work with a documentary filmmaker, Riley, who has uncovered a fascinating story about Jews serving in Hitler’s army. Riley wants to research Chloe’s family history and the lives that were saved in the tunnels under their house in Normandy. Chloe is floored—her family isn’t Jewish, for one thing, and she doesn’t know anything about tunnels or the history of the house. But as she begins to explore the dark and winding passageways beneath the chateau, nothing can prepare her for the shock of what she and Riley discover… With emotion and intrigue, Melanie Dobson brings World War II France to life in this beautiful novel about war, family, sacrifice, and the secrets of the past.


Chup

Chup

Author: Deepa Narayan

Publisher: Juggernaut Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9386228602

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Parenting Tips for Indian Parents

Parenting Tips for Indian Parents

Author: Deepa Chaudhury

Publisher: Notion Press

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 1947283707

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Should I be a friend or a parent to my child? Should we put our child into an International school or an alternative school? How do I talk to my child about the ‘birds and the bees’? How do I explain to my six year old where babies come from? What should I do if I catch my child smoking? Parenting from the word ‘go’ is a roller coaster ride. It is unpredictable and you can never be fully prepared! The fast changing Indian social scenario has made parenting more complex. Indian parents today have to balance tradition with living in a world that is hyper connected. Trends, fads, internet, Whatsapp, Facebook, International schools, alternative schools, baby blues … everything has to be understood, managed and balanced. Parenting Tips for Indian Parents takes a comprehensive look at issues that arise from the time one thinks of having a baby until the time the child steps into adulthood. It helps understand the various stages of growth and development vis-a-vis physical, emotional, cognitive development. It offers insight into practical parenting, preparing for the second child, dealing with issues of a single child, understanding intelligence and personality besides understanding teenage and its issues. To help parents get the benefit of traditional knowledge and expertise, many traditional Indian ‘dadi ka nuskhaas’ to cope with minor ailments and improve health, which were common knowledge once but are getting lost with time, have also been incorporated.


The First, the Few, the Only

The First, the Few, the Only

Author: Deepa Purushothaman

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0063084724

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A deeply personal call to action for women of color to find power from within and to join together in community, advocating for a new corporate environment where we all belong—and are accepted—on our own terms. Women of color comprise one of the fastest-growing segments in the corporate workforce, yet often we are underrepresented—among the first, few, or only ones in a department or company. For too long, corporate structures, social zeitgeist, and cultural conditioning have left us feeling exhausted and downtrodden, believing that in order to “fit in” and be successful, we must hide or change who we are. As a former senior partner at a large global services firm, Deepa Purushothaman experienced these feelings of isolation and burnout. She met with hundreds of other women of color across industries and cultural backgrounds, eager to hear about their unique and shared experiences. In doing so, she has come to understand our collective setbacks—and the path forward in achieving our goals. Business must evolve—and women of color have the potential to lead that transformation. We must begin by pushing back against toxic messaging—including the things we tell ourselves—while embracing the valuable cultural viewpoints and experiences that give us unique perspectives at work. By fully realizing our own strengths, we can build collective power and use it to confront microaggressions, outdated norms, and workplace misconceptions; create cultures where belonging is never conditional; and rework corporations to be genuinely inclusive to all. The First, the Few, the Only is a road map for us to make a profound impact within and outside our organizations while ensuring that our words are heard, our lived experiences are respected, and our contributions are finally valued.