Cookbook a practical guide to exploring vegetarianism With more than 180 recipes from India, book provides healthful variety

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: January 3, 1996| Author: PRADNYA JOSHI | Copyright information

As a teenager who knew everything, I was dogmatically convinced that I wouldn't need to know how to cook. My top priority was my career. Every time my parents subtly pressured me to take some cooking lessons from my mother, who raised us on Indian vegetarian food, I quickly would quip that learning calculus was going to get me much farther in life than cooking ever would.

OK, Mom, I was wrong. As a journalist, I haven't taken the derivative of 2-secant-squared-theta in more tha...

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