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WINNER GOURMAND COOKBOOK AWARD for Best Foreign Cuisine Cookbook

"Highly recommended: a 'must' for any serious international cookbook collection: there's simply nothing like it on the American market." -The Midwest Book Review

The landlocked nation of Nepal is tucked into the Himalayan mountains between India and Tibet. Nepali cuisine is…

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I strongly recommend this book as the most authoritative English-language publication on Nepali cuisines. The book’s thematic structure and details of the range of Nepali dishes and food types place it in a class of its own.

Pathek’s mastery of ‘about’ and ‘how to’ detail is matched by his passion for the subject concerned; it sets a ‘gold standard’ for communication to the English-speaking world at both home cookery and professional levels regarding this still little-known cuisine in the West and outside of South Asia. 

I make this commendation as an educationalist–‘Foods of Nepal resource (with culture minister and TV…

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