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Raji Cuisine : Indian Flavors, French Passion by Raji Jallepalli (2000, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-100060192224

ISBN-139780060192228

eBay Product ID (ePID)1644842

Product Key Features

Book TitleRaji Cuisine : Indian Flavors, French Passion

Number of Pages232 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2000

TopicRegional & Ethnic / International, Regional & Ethnic / Indian & South Asian, Regional & Ethnic / French

IllustratorYes

GenreCooking

AuthorRaji Jallepalli

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight30.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width7.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN99-016767

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal641.5954

SynopsisWhen Raji Jallepalli was a child growing up in India, she loved to sneak into the kitchen to carefully observe the cook and ask questions about whatever happened to be on the stove. Her parents discouraged such behavior--since Indian ladies did not cook. With a career in the kitchen unthinkable, Raji immersed herself in a career in microbiology. Years later, she visited France and fell in love with French food and wine. On first tasting the food she thought, "This is nice, but it could use some of the assertive flavors of my homeland as well as some lightening up." Three important influences--her Indian upbringing, scientific background, and love of French cuisine--inform Raji's cooking and account for her incredible success as a chef, and a self-taught one at that. Her eponymous restaurant, Restaurant Raji in Memphis, Tennessee, was nominated for a James Beard Award in 1996 and 1997 and helped establish Raji as one of this country's hottest culinary stars. She has been called "a major player" by the New York Times, and her restaurant was dubbed "one of the most exciting in America" by Food & Wine. Raji defines her brand of fusion as "a rather quiet combining of vastly different cultures, philosophies, and cooking techniques." In her kitchen she retains the basic principles and balance of French cuisine while introducing the profound bouquets of Indian cooking. As star chef and Raji fan Charlie Trotter writes in the foreword, "Hers becomes one cuisine--not a melding of two. It is completely natural, there is nothing contrived about it." All the recipes in Raji Cuisine come from Raji's restaurant but are adapted for the home kitchen. A full glossary of Indian spices appears, along with a primer on techniques and notes on choosing wine to accompany Raji's uniquely flavored fare. Outstanding, easy-to-follow recipes, gorgeous four-color photographs, and Raj'i's own reflections on her incredible journey to stardom in America's foremost culinary circles--all combine to make Raji Cuisine a welcome and remarkable debut from an extraordinary talent.

LC Classification NumberTX724.5.I4J33 2000