Tangy Tart Hot and Sweet: A World of Recipes for Every Day

I love this book! I just got it and in one day I made the waffles, the braised lamb, the pita chips, and the rose ice cream. All amazing! My kids even loved the orange blossom waffles and rose ice cream. The lamb was a huge hit at my dinner party. This is everything a cookbook should be - beautiful, inspiring, and with great recipes.

I made all of the following dishes as part of my menu for a SE inspired dinner party with excellent results: Keralan Crab Cakes, Deviled Eggs w/Serrano Chilies, Asian Cole Slaw, Carrot & Cilantro Salad, Green Mango Curry. Most of the recipes are not complicated, but they often require ingredients that you may not find at regular supermarkets (e.g. amchoor, or dried mango powder, and asafoetida) - I found everything I need at Kalyustan's in NYC ([...] The author does suggest alternatives for the more hard-to-find ingredients, and her easy-to-follow recipes have inspired me to try making more labor-intensive dishes like Moroccan Bisteeya.

This book was so enticing that I cooked from it the afternoon it arrived. The recipe was straightforward and the results divine.

I left my first copy in another country 😢 and I was eager to order another. This book is in great condition.

This is the "go to" cookbook in my kitchen. I've made recipes from every section of the book, many several times over and have taken the liberty to experiment with different meats (i.e. the Pan Asian Curried Beef recipe I've made with ground lamb, beef, buffalo, etc.)These recipes have tested the palates of my friends and pushed my culinary skills to new levels while at the same time relatively easy to understand and achieve great results. Love the fact that most recipes are loaded with flavor, but not so much on the calories!!! And yes, some of the ingredients are difficult to find, though a quick order online and a few visits to specialty markets will do the trick. Too many great recipes to list suffice it to say, I'm not the greatest cook but I feel like a culinary goddess with this cookbook by my side.

I love this book! I love the personal stories that accompany the recepies. There was only one salad receipt that looked dull and like diet food. . But. Other than that the recepies look fab and delicious!

The pictures are beautiful, the stories enchanting... but the food, meh. I don't think all the measurements were calculated correctly and the spicing is hit or miss, ok on some dishes but seriously lacking on others. Really expecting more from Padma.

Some recipes required too many special ingredients but others were quite normal and very, very yummy.

A great read and so many tasty recipes to try!!

Book is ok if you like Asian cooking. Asian cooking requires too much ingredients. I am not so into it. However, it is good to try from time to time.