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The Great Indian Thali Seasonal Vegetarian Wholesomeness

Nandita Iyer

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Bringing to you vegetarian wholesomeness and stories from India, Thali is an immersive tour into India?s culinary landscape. As one of the largest consumers of vegetarian diet in the world today, many Indian communities in the plains and the peninsula have depended on the large variety of healthy local produce rich in vegetables, fruits, nuts, grai...ns, cereal due to suitable climatic conditions over generations. There?s a diversity of food available for every occasion, season, festival, age, region and even the day of the week ? you name it. Exquisitely designed, with 70 easy-to-make quintessentially Indian recipes, Thali makes your mouth water and jaws drop with histories of India?s places and people telling you who they are and why they eat what they eat.

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Author

  • Doctor, nutrition expert, wellbeing advocate and columnist, Nandita Iyer is the author of three bestselling books. She has been writing on nutrition, health and food for over fifteen years. Since 2006, her popular blog Saffron Trail has been a major resource for healthy food and vegetarian recipes.

    Nandita’s newsletter Sattva is about the joys of mindfulness and the beauty of slow living. She is a student of Hindustani classical vocal music. She has an avid social media following on Instagram and Twitter. You can follow her @saffrontrail. Originally from Mumbai, Nandita lives in Bengaluru with her husband and son, her many plants and her beloved dog, Ida.

ISBN
9789392130434
Binding
Hardback
Page Extent
192
Weight (kg)
0.7
Height (in)
6.85
Width (in)
9.25
Subject
Food & Drinks
Published Date
20/10/22
Publisher
Roli Books

Author

  • Doctor, nutrition expert, wellbeing advocate and columnist, Nandita Iyer is the author of three bestselling books. She has been writing on nutrition, health and food for over fifteen years. Since 2006, her popular blog Saffron Trail has been a major resource for healthy food and vegetarian recipes.

    Nandita’s newsletter Sattva is about the joys of mindfulness and the beauty of slow living. She is a student of Hindustani classical vocal music. She has an avid social media following on Instagram and Twitter. You can follow her @saffrontrail. Originally from Mumbai, Nandita lives in Bengaluru with her husband and son, her many plants and her beloved dog, Ida.

ISBN
9789392130434
Binding
Hardback
Page Extent
192
Weight (kg)
0.7
Height (in)
6.85
Width (in)
9.25
Subject
Food & Drinks
Published Date
20/10/22
Publisher
Roli Books

Reviews

Femina

Published Date:- January 4, 2023

As always with Nandita, author of three bestselling books, this is so much more than a book with recipes. She analyses what makes India's communities vegetarian, detailing how geography, cropping patterns, influences from migrations, invasions, trade and colonialism have all worked to enrich the cuisine, starting 2,500 years ago. “A thali,” she writes in the introduction, “is a coming together of thousands of years of civilizations, societies, world trade, migration, invasion, domestication of crops, agriculture and seasons, all these accommodated in a circle of twelve inches diameter or less.” A full thali, she details, has four to five ‘side dishes’ – vegetable curries, dals, legumes, green leafy vegetables , buttermilk or a yoghurt-based dish – centred around a starch component (rice, wheat or millets). Adding colour ànd variety are condiments, and, on special days and festivals, a sweet.

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Ranveer Brar

Published Date:- October 12, 2022

‘The easiest way to understand and analyse Indian food is to break down the thali... while our cultures and cuisines might be diverse, thali brings India together and that’s exactly what Nandita does in her book – bring us together.’


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