The Moghuls gave India the Taj Mahal and, as this ground-breaking book shows, they also transformed the country's cooking. Duck with cherries, pomegranate soup,

Does East Indian cuisine prepared in a microwave oven offer authentic taste? Julie Sahni, the foremost creator and teacher of Indian cooking outside India, show

* The Mughal Feast is a delightful transcreation of the original handwritten Persian recipe book Nuskha-e-Shahjahani from the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's time*

A beautiful fiftieth-anniversary edition of the essential Indian cookbook—"the final word on the subject" (The New York Times)—featuring a new introduction

Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago