The New Curry Bible: The Ultimate Modern Curry House Recipe Book (Curry Club)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Pat Chapman Our price £8.39 (£12.99) New from £6.68 Used from £7.50 Pages: 288 (Paperback) ISBN: 1843581590 Pub: Metro Books,London Pub date: 2006-09-15 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5747

Reader Reviews:

An excellent book. (1/1 people found this helpful)

This is an excellent book - for anyone who wants to create an authentic Indian takeaway curry at home. It has all the curries I can think of and tells you how to build the base sauce for all restaurant curries and even gives different versions of most (for example a traditional recipe as opposed to the restaurant variety).

I really like this book! My only gripe, is that it gives an extremely heavily spiced base sauce and I found the base sauce or 'curry gravy' too crowded with spicy flavours. I made the Jalfrezi from this book and used the 'curry gravy' recipe from Kris Dhillon's book the curry secret - the result was phenomenal.

My advice: if you want one book on restaurant curry - buy this one; however if you'd prefer a broader outlook buy alongside Kris Dhillon book!

Do NOT Buy This Book (0/1 people found this helpful)

As a big fan of Indian food, I bought this book with high expectations. I faithfully followed the instructions, blended all the 15 spices etc. and ended up with an overpowering brown gloop, that ultimately went into the bin and the local take-away got a bonus order.

This has to be the biggest waste of time ever, the recipes are completely over the top, and in my opinion do not work. Save yourself a tenner and buy Kris Dhillon's "Curry Secret" instead, it is about half the price and delivers tasty curries that you actually want to eat.

Not for curry in a hurry! (0/0 people found this helpful)

A lovely book. However, not for those who want curry in a hurry. The best book so far by Pat Chapman is his restaurant curry book.

Very good...just a quick warning though (7/9 people found this helpful)

Although this book is very good, if you have the 'older' version, then don't buy this....they are both EXACTLY the same. My girlfriend bought me this thinking it was a different book, it's not. I'm gutted.
Anyway, the recipes are very good. No 'curry in a hurry' here which suits me fine.

Not for 'quick-fix' curry paste fans - good! (12/13 people found this helpful)

In our house we both love cooking all kinds of Asian food. Pat's books have been a favourite of ours for many years and yet we have learned new tips and blends of ingredients from this new book.

So many cookery books are published to sit elegantly on some coffee-table, destined never to become dog-eared from frequent thumbing, especially in the UK where we seem to have an obsession with reading about cookery but never doing it ourselves!

Assembling the ingredients is NOT a chore if, as with the spices, you ensure they're always in stock. What are spice drawers for if not for spices? Car keys/elastic bands/spare nails? This book will certainly encourage everyone to have a kitchen that has great smells wafting round the room every time you open different drawers (better and healthier than any artifical air freshener!).

Make time to (re-)discover the joy of making your dinners from scratch - this book positively demands it. The results are rewarding, believe me.

Go for it!

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