Madhur Jaffrey's Cookbook/ Easy East/West Menus for Family and Friends

"In this intimate and original cookbook, Madhur Jaffrey presents her personal choice of easy international meals that she serves to her own family and friends in her city apartment and country home. Especially chosen to suit the needs of busy people, every menu is nourishing, healthful, and appetizing. There are meals for every occasion: brunches, picnics, simple lunches, after-theatre suppers - all cheerfully mingling the cooking traditions to which Madhur Jaffrey has been exposed, including Mexican, Korean, Japanese, vegetarian, and good old American, as well as the Indian cuisine for which she is known. She includes recipes she has collected in her travels around the world, and in her introductions to the menus she refelcts on how the recipes first came into her repertoire. As she says of her Golden Sesame Corn Bread, "when a woman from India who has lived in Europe marries a man from American whose father comes from Kentucky," some exotic possibilities are bound to occur. Whether it's Broiled Coriander-Honey Chicken with Hot Sweet and Sour Peanut Sauce; Indian-Style Scrambled Eggs with Potatoes and Cauliflower; Fish Fillets on a Bed of Spinach with a Fennel-Tomato Sauce; The Best Roast Pork, Ecuador Style; or Fresh Orange Slices with a Gingery Yogurt Sauce - all these dishes are simple, light, easy to prepare, and absolutely representative of the imagination and special style of Madhur Jaffrey"--Inside front flap.