Krishna Prasad Dar’s collection of over a hundred Kashmiri recipes became a classic in its time. First published a decade ago, this new revised edition is beautifully illustrated by his son, cartoonist Sudhir Dar, with an informative introduction to Kashmiri food, one of the subcontinent’s most elaborate and interesting cuisines. This book has been a labour of love. My father began to write it when he was eighty and though it took over a year to complete, his great passion for cooking and his lifelong belief that if a job is worth doing, it’s worth doing well kept him in good spirits till this mega task was over. In the last stages it became a great family effort and three generations were deeply involved in what we believed was somewhat of a pioneering exercise. Now the magic formulae are yours. This book is divided into seven parts. The methods are precise and simple to work on. Savour a little of this, a little of that, but when you settle down to eat, please do justice to the cuisine-eat with your fingers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Krishna Prasad Dar
Krishna Prasad Dar was born in Calcutta in 1893 and educated at St. Xavier’s College. He chose printing as a career when little or no attention was being paid to it in India. Beginning in a small room at Allahabad in the twenties, in ten years he raised the standard of his printing house, the Allahabad Law Journal Press, to a level of excellence that attracted the best-known authors and publishers of the time. Many of Jawaharlal Nehru’s earliest works, including Letters from a Father to His Daughter and Glimpses of World History, bore the stamp of Krishna Prasad Dar’s printing, as did several writings of Gandhiji. In 1975 he was awarded a Padma Shri for his distinguished contribution to the profession. Two of his books, Adhunik Chhapayi (Modern Printing) and Copy and Proof, were regarded as manuals for decades. Krishna Prasad Dar was many masters rolled into one. Apart from being an eminent printer, he was an accomplished homoeopath, a skilled photographer, a prize-winning gardener and a master craftsman in the art of cooking.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sudhir Dar
Sudhir Dar has regaled readers the world over with his delightful cartoons for more than four decades.
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