My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking

My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking by King, Niloufer Ichaporia. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780520249608.

One of Food & Wines 35 Best Cookbooks of All Time Winner of the James Beard Award in Asian Cooking One of Chef Samin Nosrat’s Ten Favorite Books The Persians of antiquity were renowned for their lavish cuisine and their never-ceasing fascination with the exotic. These traits still find expression in the cooking of Indias rapidly dwindling Parsi population—descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Persia after the Sassanian empire fell to the invading Arabs. The first book published in the United States on Parsi food written by a Parsi, this beautiful volume includes 165 recipes and makes one of Indias most remarkable regional cuisines accessible to Westerners. In an intimate narrative rich with personal experience, the author leads readers into a world of new ideas, tastes, ingredients, and techniques, with a range of easy and seductive menus that will reassure neophytes and challenge explorers.