Book: Mastering the Art of Indian Cooking

By Sanjeev Kapoor

When this book isn't in my kitchen (I'm attempting to teach myself to cook Indian food), it's on my bedside table for nighttime reading. Its more than 600 pages have no photos or illustrations to interrupt the text, which means there's a lot of information to absorb.

This isn't the easiest cookbook to follow because the index lists each dish under its Indian name, with just a few descriptions in English. Finding the lamb recipe I chanced upon while browsing in the bookstore proved to be a challenge. I had to investigate each mention of lamb before I found the right one.

That's something I can live with, though, because in that process, I found even more dishes that I now want to try.