{"id":89,"date":"2010-10-25T11:41:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T15:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=89"},"modified":"2011-06-12T19:11:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T23:11:16","slug":"indian-cookbook-author-madhur-jaffrey-bookshop-santa-cruz-appearance-and-recipe-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Indian Cookbook Author Madhur Jaffrey: Bookshop Santa Cruz appearance and recipe review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indian cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey appears at Bookshop Santa Cruz<\/a> on October 25 to promote her newest cookbook, and I can personally vouch for two of the recipes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka\u201d is a terrific cookbook with 190 recipes including Red Lentil Curry Soup and Salmon in a Bengali Mustard Sauce. Last night I used it to make two dishes, Stir-Fried Chettinad Chicken (a spicy entr\u00e9e that requires 30-minute marinating but only 7 minutes of cooking) and Swiss Chard with Ginger and Garlic (I used chard purchased from the Aptos Farmers Market the day before, and the freshness really made the flavors come alive). They were simple recipes that produced delectable results, and the recipe ingredients are all easy to find. The ones that weren\u2019t as common, urad dal<\/em> and curry leaves, included an author\u2019s note that yellow split peas and basil leaves could be substituted \u2013 which is what I used. I ate the two savory dishes with Trader Joe\u2019s Harvest Grains because that\u2019s my go-to healthy, easy couscous-orzo-quinoa side and goes well with a lot of entrees, but the chicken and chard would be well complemented by basmati or brown rice, with perhaps a little Greek-style yogurt to provide some cooling.<\/p>\n

The author is known for making Indian cuisine very accessible to the novice home chef, and she once again delivers with this book. As Jaffrey writes in the introduction, the recipes \u201c\u2026are simple to being with\u2026very often all you require is a little oil, a few whole spices, and the vegetable or fish. Saute and it is done.\u201d Also, Jaffrey uses \u201c\u2026a smaller palette of spices\u201d which makes the recipes even easier while not sacrificing any flavor. She has said of this book: \u201cWhether you are cooking Indian Food for the first time or just looking for new ideas, this is the book that will show you how to do it with ease.” Jaffrey has written several cookbooks; six have won the James Beard Award \u2013 including her first book, \u201cAn Invitation to Indian Cooking\u201d (1973), and \u201cMadhur Jaffrey’s Taste of the Far East\u201d (1993), voted Best International Cookbook and Book of the Year. She is a legendary chef, not to mention an award-winning actress with a new film coming out in November (\u201cToday\u2019s Special\u201d). Her memoir, \u201cClimbing the Mango Trees,\u201d was published in 2006. Learn more about Jaffrey at her web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Bookshop Santa Cruz event, at 7:30pm, includes samples of Jaffrey\u2019s recipes prepared by store staff. I\u2019ve gone to a few readings at Bookshop where staff members make food from author cookbooks, and they always do a terrific job. I recommend showing up quite early for this reading: Jaffrey is known for being a great storyteller and she has a huge following. The event is bound to be extremely crowded.<\/p>\n

The Details<\/p>\n

Monday, October 25, 2010<\/p>\n

7:30pm<\/p>\n

Cookbook Author Madhur Jaffrey<\/p>\n

Bookshop Santa Cruz<\/p>\n

1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz<\/p>\n

831-423-0900<\/p>\n

Please follow me on Twitter\u00a0@santacruzfoodie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Indian cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey appears at Bookshop Santa Cruz on October 25 to promote her newest cookbook, and I can personally vouch for two of the recipes. \u201cAt Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[42,38,41,7],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking-chefs","tag-cooking","tag-events-2","tag-indian-cuisine","tag-santa-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}