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Food and Drink
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External Links
- Anglo Indian Cuisine Wikipedia
- Anglo-Indian Food from Bridget White-Kumar's Anglo-IndianFood.blogspot.com
- "A passage to colonial India" by Mini Anthikad-Chhibber June 2, 2011 The Hindu. Article about Bridget White-Kumar.
- Blogs by Vikram Doctor, The Economic Times. Before the Dawn of Pressure Cookers. The Santosh Cooker May 25, 2012, Slow, Delicious & in Many Tiers. The Icmic Cooker September 03, 2012
- This link[1] refers very briefly to the cookbooks of Harvey Day: "Veterans were understandably captivated by Indian cuisine during their tenure, inspiring Harvey Day’s wonderfully archaic and superbly sentient The Complete Book of Curries"
- Images of the cover and ten pages of text including recipes: Curries of India by Harvey Day, published 1955 flickr.com. Some of the individual images have additional details.
- "An Adventure in Curry" with a recipe from Curries of India
- Harvey Day also wrote The Second/Third/Fourth/Fifth Book of Curries, published from 1958 to 1967, The Complete Book of Curries (A combined edition of “The first (-fourth) book of curries”) published 1966, and reprinted 1971, and some additional books.
- Potato Recipe www.foodgeeks.com, Poultry Recipes (Scroll down) www.billabbie.com, Khedgeree Recipe (Scroll down) www.billabbie.com from The Complete Book of Curries
- Images of the cover and ten pages of text including recipes: Curries of India by Harvey Day, published 1955 flickr.com. Some of the individual images have additional details.
Recommended Reading
- The Raj at table By David Burton. London: Faber, 1994 (See Review Society reading list)
Historical Books online
- The Indian Cookery Book, published c 1900 by Thacker, Spink & Co, Calcutta. First published 1880 as The Indian Cookery Book: a practical handbook to the kitchen in India, adapted to the Three Presidencies: By a thirty-five years Resident. Project Gutenberg Australia
- The English Bride in India by Chota Mem ((Junior Memsahib, [Mrs. C. Lang]) 1909 Archive.org. The author is mentioned in "Cooks of the British Raj: In the Shadows of the Cantonments" from Cynthia Bertelsen’s Gerkins and Tomatoes
- The Khaki Kook Book: A Collection of a Hundred Cheap and Practical Recipes Mostly from Hindustan by Mary Kennedy Core 1917 Project Gutenberg. The introduction indicates the author was an American missionary.
References
- ↑ The Spice Scribe "The Spice Scribe cogitates on a vast and valuable cookbook collection".