Priya Sharma

Indian Cookbook: 1000 Indian Recipes for Curries, Dals, Chutneys, Masalas, Biryani, and a lot of Recipes by Priya Sharma
TOC where recipes are broken up into food groups and meals.
Each recipe starts with a title, servings.
List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar and fresh vs canned items.
Directions are given and there is NO nutritional information and NO pictures.
There are a large variety of foods from the Indian cuisine. Some ingredients you may find it hard to find like besan, it's a type of flour with chickpeas and gram flour.
Some recipe translate the name into English Recipes do NOT always start at the top of a new page.
I definitely do NOT know much about Indian foods and you should have an idea of what it is you are making and with what ingredients.
Nankhatai, sweet Indian cookies would be my choice to try, I have all the ingredients, sound simple.
There is a glossary of words at the very back. along with techniques of how to do certain things to foods: cleaning crabs, or clams, steaming, wet grinding, etc.… (mer)

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I was blown away by Sharma's novella, Ormeshadow, which I read at the end of last year; this is a collection of her short stories, almost all of them with some genre elements (though one of the best, "Small Town Stories", seemed to me to be a straightforward psychological tale). I thought they were tremendously good, combining fantasy, horror and human elements, each one of them a real jewel. Strongly recommended.… (mer)