From time to time someone mentions a book which they've picked up second- hand or have had for a number of years.
If you have a book which you think is worth looking out for in secondhand shops and book fairs please post to this thread.
I'm kicking off with:
Cooking with Spices Caroline Heal and Michael Allsop Pub. David and Charles (UK and US) 1983 ISBN 0 7153 8369 8
General - worldwide
2 - 3 pages per spice, with a relevant recipe Table of spice mixes giving country of origin, proportions of ingredients and uses. Glossary of Indian words, not confined to spices Glossary of SE Asian words " " " Glossary of Japanes words " " " Glossary of Chinese words " " " Glossary of Arabic words " " " Glossary of technical terms
The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking Yamuna Devi Pub. (USA) Bala Books (1987) (UK) Century Hutchinson (1990) (UK) Leopard Books (1998) ISBN 0 7529 0080 3
US English Over 700 pages, with detailed descriptions and instructions preceding each section, an A - Z of General (Indian) Information and Hindi vocabulary with guide to pronunciation.
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Elaine Jones <ela...@cae-coed.zetnet.co.uk> interrupted again during tiffin, managed to blurt:
>If you have a book which you think is worth looking out for in secondhand >shops and book fairs please post to this thread.
OK. Here's one to make up for my previous scurrilous effort, and which I've not seen mentioned yet. An enjoyable read:
Curries and Bugles - A Memoir and Cookbook of the British Raj ( Penguin Cookery Library 1992; pp324,pbk. ISBN 0-14-046893-5 ) by Jennifer Brennan
Daughter, grand-daughter and great grand-daughter of Brits in India, Jennifer Brennan was sent home in 1935 to be born in Blighty, then brought up in the Punjab and Kashmir, and later Mysore, seeing out the last days of the Raj. Her book is a mix of history, not only general but drawing upon her own and her family's experiences, interesting stuff purloined from relevant sources[1], and the all pervading recipes. There's a glossary to help with vocabulary[2].
The blurb on the back cover : "A wonderful memoir and a unique cookery book to celebrate the food, people and places of the British Raj in India. With affection and nostalgia, Jennifer Brennan depicts the historical background to the period and explores the lifestyles of the Sahibs and Memsahibs, how they entertained and what they ate. With more than 200 recipes including Clam and bacon koftas with apricot sauce, Stuffed pomfret rolls in aspic and Byculla Club soufflé, she recreates the dinners, breakfasts, tiffins, picnics, teas and buffets of the 'Servants to the Crown'. Beautifully illustrated, brimming with her own personal observations and anecdotes, Jennifer Brennan brings the magic of Imperial India to our doorstep."
[1] The bibliography lists an interesting range of books. Some of the more recent ones you might recognize, here's a selection of the more obscure:
A.C.S., Memsahib's Book of Cookery (India, 1894). Anon., All About Indian Chutneys, Pickles and Preserves, (Thacker, Spink & Co., Calcutta, undated). Kenny-Herbert, Colonel, Wyvern's Indian Cookery Book, (Higgenbotham & Co., Madras, 1869). Ketab, Indian Dishes for English Tables (Chapman & Hall, London, 1910). Lewis, C.C., Culinary Notes for Sind (C.C.Lewis, Karachi, 1923). Steele,F.A., and Gardiner, G., The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, (Bombay Education Society Press, Bombay, 1893).
[2] If the glossary is insufficient, the reader is commended to Yule, H., Colonel, and Burnell, A.C., Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1985).
Quite by chance, a search engine I was trying out returned a whole bunch of spurious links, including: http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/260/frameset.html 'The Complete Hobson-Jobson Dictionary' by Yule and Burnell ! Unfortunately this page produces a 'script error' in Win3 IE4 and fails to display, dammit. Can't locate it in the browser cache so perhaps somebody could take a dekko and email it to me, so that I can determine the problem, or else post a de-javascripted, de-HTML-ized version, if it's not too big or off-topic?
Quoting from message <3ceb94b7.15485...@News.CIS.DFN.DE> posted on 22 May 2002 by Raymond M. Harris I would like to add:
> Elaine Jones <ela...@cae-coed.zetnet.co.uk> > interrupted again during tiffin, managed to blurt: > [2] If the glossary is insufficient, the reader is commended to > Yule, H., Colonel, and Burnell, A.C., Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary > of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, > (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1985).
I've seen this listed somewhere (wonder if there's a reprint out) but can't remember where.
> Quite by chance, a search engine I was trying out > returned a whole bunch of spurious links, including: > http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/260/frameset.html > 'The Complete Hobson-Jobson Dictionary' by Yule and Burnell ! > Unfortunately this page produces a 'script error' in Win3 IE4 > and fails to display, dammit. Can't locate it in the browser cache > so perhaps somebody could take a dekko and email it to me, > so that I can determine the problem, or else post a de-javascripted, > de-HTML-ized version, if it's not too big or off-topic?
I got a page with a large blank frame and one at the side with
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so I knocked the URL back to get the index page of bibliomania, clicked on the URL for search - but had a page just like the one already mentioned.
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> Elaine Jones <ela...@cae-coed.zetnet.co.uk> > interrupted again during tiffin, managed to blurt:
> >If you have a book which you think is worth looking out for in secondhand > >shops and book fairs please post to this thread.
> OK. Here's one to make up for my previous scurrilous effort, > and which I've not seen mentioned yet. An enjoyable read:
> Curries and Bugles - A Memoir and Cookbook of the British Raj > ( Penguin Cookery Library 1992; pp324,pbk. ISBN 0-14-046893-5 ) > by Jennifer Brennan
I have Curries and Bugles, it is a good addition to any good curry book collection. My current wish list is as follows.
"Taste of India" ISBN 1 84309 332 4 published by Hermes House
Afghan Food and Cookery Helen Saberi Hippocrene Books ISBN: 0-7818-0807-3
Helen Saberi, Noshe Djan: Afghan Food & Cookery, New and revised edition (Blackawton: Prospect Books, 2000), pp. 272, includes bibliography and index. How to Cook and Eat in Chinese, by Buwei Yang Chao
The Essential Delhi Cookbook by Priti Narayan. Penguin Books India, New Delhi.
Non-vegetarian Cook Book by Tahlina Kaul. Fusion Books, New Delhi
All Around the World Cookbook Sheila Lukins
The Tandoori and Barbecue Cookbook by Ravinder Sachdev (ISBN 81-216-0021-9)
> >I got a page with a large blank frame and one at the side with
> Blah blah blah
> >so I knocked the URL back to get the index page of bibliomania, clicked > >on the URL for search - but had a page just like the one already mentioned.
> So it was a dud link, then. What a shame. Thanks for trying.
> Regards, > Ray
The link does work, I accessed it from my home computer and my work PC.
> >The link does work, I accessed it from my home computer and my work PC.
> Doh! Typical. So is the text actually there, or is it just an advert?
> R
The text is there, once you enter the Hobson Jobson part of the site you get the alphabet and can enter any letter you like which is then further sub-divided. Here is the entry for Hobson Jobson
HOBSON-JOBSON, s. A native festal excitement; a tamasha (see TUMASHA); but especially the Moharram ceremonies. This phrase may be taken as a typical one of the most highly assimilated class of Anglo- Indian argot, and we have ventured to borrow from it a concise alternative title for this Glossary. It is peculiar to the British soldier and his surroundings, with whom it probably originated, and with whom it is by no means obsolete, as we once supposed. My friend Major John Trotter tells me that he has repeatedly heard it used by British soldiers in the Punjab; and has heard it also from a regimental Moonshee. It is in fact an Anglo-Saxon version of the wailings of the Mahommedans as they beat their breasts in the procession of the Moharram-"Ya Hasan ! Ya Hosain !' It is to be remembered that these observances are in India by no means confined t o Shi'as. Except at Lucknow and Murshidabad, the great majority of Mahommedans in the country are professed Sunnis. Yet here is a statement of the facts from an unexceptionable authority:
"The commonalty of the Mussalmans, and especially the women, have more regard for the memory of Hasan and Husein, than for that of Muhammad and his khalifs. The heresy of making Ta'ziyas (see TAZEEA) on the anniversary of the two latter imáms, is most common throughout India: so much so that opposition to it is ascribed by the ignorant to blasphemy. This example is followed by many of the Hindus, especially the Mahrattas. The Muharram is celebrated throughout the Dekhan and Malwa, with greater enthusiasm than in other parts of India. Grand preparations are made in every town on the occasion, as if for a festival of rejoicing, rather than of observing the rites of mourning, as they ought. The observance of this custom has so strong a hold on the mind of the commonalty of the Mussulmans that they believe Muhammadanism to depend merely on keeping the memory of the imáms in the above manner." -Mir Shahamat 'Ali, in J.R. As. Soc. xiii. 369.
We find no literary quotation to exemplify the phrase as it stands. [But see those from the Orient. Sporting Mag. and Nineteenth Century below.] Those which follow show it in the process of evolution: 1618.-". e particolarmente delle donne che, battendosi il petto e facendo gesti di grandissima compassiono replicano spesso con gran dolore quegli ultimi versi di certi loro cantici: Van Hussein ! sciah Hussein !"-P. della Valle, i. 552.
c. 1630.-"Nine dayes they wander up and downe (shaving all that while neither head nor beard, nor seeming joyfull), incessantly calling out Hussan, Hussan! in a melancholy note, so long, so fiercely, that many can neither howle longer, nor for a month's space recover their voices."-Sir T. Herbert, 261.
1653.-". ils dressent dans les rues des Sepulchres de pierres, qu'ils couronnent de Lampes ardentes, et les soirs ils y vont dancer et sauter crians Hussan, Houssain, Houssain, Hassan. ."-De la Boullayele-Gouz, ed. 1657, p. 144.
c. 1665.-". ainsi j'eus tout le loisir dont j'eus besoin pour y voir celebrer la Fête de Hussein Fils d'Aly. . Les Mores de Golconde le celebrent avec encore beaucoup plus de folies qu'en Perse . d'autres font des dances en rond, tenant des épées nës la pointe en haut, qu'ils touchent les unes contre les autres, en criant de toute leur force Hussein."-Thevenot, v. 320.
1673.-"About this time the Moors solemnize the Exequies of Hosseen Gosseen, a time of ten days Mourning for two Unfortunate Champions of theirs."-Fryer,
