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"Over 240 recipes from around the world. You’ll notice in “Great Vegetarian Dishes’” full and inviting Directory of Recipes quite a number of tantalizing Indian recipes – South Indian Sweet-and-Sour Tamarind Rice, Gujarati Yogurt Soup, Rajasthani Spicy Dal-Stuffed Bread, North Indian Curried Cauliflower and Potato, and many others.

This is the first part of a casual photo collection of memorable post-cooking class banquets I have hosted. The venue is Darwin in tropical far-north Australia, and the year is 2008. If you'd like to get more of a feel of the time and place, click here.

I'll be back there again in November this year.

This is the first part of a casual photo collection of memorable post-cooking class banquets I have hosted. The venue is Darwin in tropical far-north Australia, and the year is 2008. If you'd like to get more of a feel of the time and place, click here.

I'll be back there again in November this year.

While out there, I stumbled on this blog entry....

"Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside..."
Freezing our pre-pubescent selves off at Frinton, England July 1962.

Seems like half a century ago.

At a visit to the Hare Krishna community in Auckland, New Zealand on June 21st, New Zealand Prime Minister John Keys received a copy of my first cookbook Great Vegetarian Dishes.

He was happy to receive it, especially since one of his daughters is becoming a vegetarian, and he himself cooks at home every Sunday. Who knows what vegie delights may soon be on the menu at the Keys residence!

Why not?

Lene from Norway writes:

"Hello and thank you for your wonderful cookbooks. In many of your recipes
you use parmesan or grana padano. I wonder which brand you use? I dont find
any varieties with microbial rennet, only animal, but if I know which brand I may get the store here in Norway to order it. Thanks for your answer. Greetings from
Lene"

My reply: "Hello Lene, Thanks for your letter.

On June 27th, Queen Elizabeth II shook hands with former IRA leader, Martin McGuiness, now British Parliamentary MP for Mid Ulster. It was an event that many people who lived through the ‘Troubles’ in Ireland thought impossible.