A sure pick for Indian food enthusiasts seeking a new approach to well-being.
Arundale’s Indian cookbook incorporates ayurvedic wisdom and recipes for systemic balance and overall health.
The author, a native of India, immigrated to the United States in the 1970s. Once settled in America, she worked hard to master the art of Indian cooking. The author of multiple Indian cookbooks, Arundale has constructed this contribution upon the premise of ayurveda, a “traditional and natural system of medicine used to improve well-being.” The author discusses ayurvedic wisdom, presents recipes, and offers culinary remedies for specific ailments. Ayurvedic practices—based upon the idea that people are born with different internal energies (doshas) that are often unbalanced in our bodies—can include specific diets, daily routines, and seasonal approaches to achieve balance and health. Each internal energy, in turn, can interact with spices and foods to heal and balance the body. The book presents Indian recipes that promote health with subsections dedicated to spice blends, oils and dairy, soups, khichadis (rice/lentil dishes), legumes/dal, grains, breads, side vegetables, and chutneys and salads. The text includes healing recipes for specific ailments, such as apricot juice with nutmeg for constipation, fresh mango juice for building bodily tissues, and spinach, beet, and celery juice for uterine disorders and arthritis. This cookbook emphasizes ancient cultural wisdom and will enable cooks to produce authentic Indian dishes that cater to individual and family health needs. Unlike many other Indian cookbooks, this work features a primer on preparing a variety of spice mixtures and details some unique bread offerings, such as corn roti with cilantro and spicy onion wheat bread with fresh marjoram. The table of contents is clear for cooks seeking specific creations, and the recipes are user-friendly and easy to follow. Although the book does not offer an empirically grounded argument for ayurveda or feature options for those who have autoimmune disorders or cannot tolerate gluten and dairy, this work beautifully incorporates a healthy perspective with delicious, authentic Indian cuisine.
A sure pick for Indian food enthusiasts seeking a new approach to well-being.Pub Date: Sept. 14, 2023
ISBN: 9781663250964
Page Count: 322
Publisher: iUniverse
Review Posted Online: March 11, 2024
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.
The legendary booze-addled metal rocker turned reality-TV star comes clean in his tell-all autobiography.
Although brought up in the bleak British factory town of Aston, John “Ozzy” Osbourne’s tragicomic rags-to-riches tale is somehow quintessentially American. It’s an epic dream/nightmare that takes him from Winson Green prison in 1966 to a presidential dinner with George W. Bush in 2004. Tracing his adult life from petty thief and slaughterhouse worker to rock star, Osbourne’s first-person slang-and-expletive-driven style comes off like he’s casually relating his story while knocking back pints at the pub. “What you read here,” he writes, “is what dribbled out of the jelly I call my brain when I asked it for my life story.” During the late 1960s his transformation from inept shoplifter to notorious Black Sabbath frontman was unlikely enough. In fact, the band got its first paying gigs by waiting outside concert venues hoping the regularly scheduled act wouldn’t show. After a few years, Osbourne and his bandmates were touring America and becoming millionaires from their riff-heavy doom music. As expected, with success came personal excess and inevitable alienation from the other members of the group. But as a solo performer, Osbourne’s predilection for guns, drink, drugs, near-death experiences, cruelty to animals and relieving himself in public soon became the stuff of legend. His most infamous exploits—biting the head off a bat and accidentally urinating on the Alamo—are addressed, but they seem tame compared to other dark moments of his checkered past: nearly killing his wife Sharon during an alcohol-induced blackout, waking up after a bender in the middle of a busy highway, burning down his backyard, etc. Osbourne is confessional to a fault, jeopardizing his demonic-rocker reputation with glib remarks about his love for Paul McCartney and Robin Williams. The most distinguishing feature of the book is the staggering chapter-by-chapter accumulation of drunken mishaps, bodily dysfunctions and drug-induced mayhem over a 40-plus-year career—a résumé of anti-social atrocities comparable to any of rock ’n’ roll’s most reckless outlaws.
An autobiography as toxic and addictive as any drug its author has ever ingested.Pub Date: Jan. 25, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-446-56989-7
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 2009
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A virtuoso performance and an ode to an undervalued medium created by two talented artists.
The veteran actor, comedian, and banjo player teams up with the acclaimed illustrator to create a unique book of cartoons that communicates their personalities.
Martin, also a prolific author, has always been intrigued by the cartoons strewn throughout the pages of the New Yorker. So when he was presented with the opportunity to work with Bliss, who has been a staff cartoonist at the magazine since 1997, he seized the moment. “The idea of a one-panel image with or without a caption mystified me,” he writes. “I felt like, yeah, sometimes I’m funny, but there are these other weird freaks who are actually funny.” Once the duo agreed to work together, they established their creative process, which consisted of working forward and backward: “Forwards was me conceiving of several cartoon images and captions, and Harry would select his favorites; backwards was Harry sending me sketched or fully drawn cartoons for dialogue or banners.” Sometimes, he writes, “the perfect joke occurs two seconds before deadline.” There are several cartoons depicting this method, including a humorous multipanel piece highlighting their first meeting called “They Meet,” in which Martin thinks to himself, “He’ll never be able to translate my delicate and finely honed droll notions.” In the next panel, Bliss thinks, “I’m sure he won’t understand that the comic art form is way more subtle than his blunt-force humor.” The team collaborated for a year and created 150 cartoons featuring an array of topics, “from dogs and cats to outer space and art museums.” A witty creation of a bovine family sitting down to a gourmet meal and one of Dumbo getting his comeuppance highlight the duo’s comedic talent. What also makes this project successful is the team’s keen understanding of human behavior as viewed through their unconventional comedic minds.
A virtuoso performance and an ode to an undervalued medium created by two talented artists.Pub Date: Nov. 17, 2020
ISBN: 978-1-250-26289-9
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Celadon Books
Review Posted Online: Aug. 30, 2020
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 2020
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