Good cuisine is about passion, tradition and innovation. So is success. In this unique celebration of food, celebrity achievers belonging to different regions of India and engaged in different professions, share with us their favourite recipes, which are as much about delicious food as about the joy of cooking.
Popular food columnist and author of the best-selling Mid-day Good Food Guide to Mumbai, Rashmi Uday Singh travelled to the kitchens of artists, industrialists, film stars and sportspersons, interviewing them and sampling their cooking. The result is this beautifully produced cookbook full of unusual profiles of the rich and famous, and their own recipes for their preferred dishes.
The Maharaja of Jodhpur shares with us Rajsthani delicacies from his royal banquet table, while busy professionals like singer Asha Bhonsle and ace model Madhu Sapre give us their favourites from the cuisine perfected over several years in middle-class Maharashtrian households. Joint editor and director of the Hindu, Nirmala Lakshman, picks her ideal menu from the traditional, pure vegetarian Tamil Brahmin cuisine, and hotelier Vikram Oberoi demonstrates his mastery over exciting fusion cooking. Film star Sunil Shetty introduces us to the magic of Mangalorean food, which he learnt to cook as a teenager in his fatherýs Udipi restaurant, while Namita Panjabi shares with us some of the recipes that have made Chutney Mary Londonýs most popular eating place.
Among the hundred plus recipes from Indian, Continental, Chinese, Thai, and Jewish cuisineýincluded here, are gongura mutton, ripe mango curry, Saraswat prawn curry, spicy moong chutney, Chettinad chicken fry, date khichri, beef with basil and caviar potatoes. Illustrated with colour photographs and with tips from master chefs appended to each recipe, The Oberoi Penguin Celebrity Cookbook is a rare and sumptuous treat.
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