Curry Club: Indian Restaurant Cookbook - Pat Chapman

This is a fine book, well written and presented, the recipes are easy to follow, the produce is easy to find in most towns supermarkets and the end products even though I do say so myself are great. With such a range of tastes and textures, colours and fragrances it's impossible to get board. Add to this the colurful history behind the food and the diversity of their origins its like having your own Asian culinary tour. I was laughed at by friends when I announced that I was doing the cooking for a night at home with the lads and lassies but after a little practice to get the timing right with the spices this book made me look good and the food tasted as good ...  Read the complete review

Pat Chapman, the founder of the curry club in 1982 has a passion for curries and has written several recipe books to help other curry lovers. I own one of these books the Indian Restaurant Book. I have enjoyed Indian style cooking for many years and I used to be able to go out for meals at the local restaurant, I progressed onto takeaways but I now cook my own! On my bookshelf I have lots of books with curries in but I have found that a lot of them are very complicated and the ingredients are hard to find and expensive. The most unusual ingredients in this book are the spices, which are readily available from the supermarket. This cookery ...  Read the complete review