Book Review: The Slim Punjabi by Harmeet
The Slim Punjabi by Harmeet is immensely inspired from Punjab and its exuberance and of course, its food. The book stitches Punjabi way of life with cuisine, in the midst of different rivers of Punjab. The book surges around different enlightening themes in Punjab together with love, folk songs, faith and so on.
The author coalesce an assortment of recipes as well as bring alive the reality so that one can more or less experience a culture through its food through uplifting stories and nippy effortless recipes.
With an alluring, edifying, enriching, innovative, invigorating, witty, and wistful volume the chapters marries traditions with food. The pages are also sprinkled with the entwines of Patiala Salwars, Phulkari, Turbans, Bhangra, Lohri, verses of Bulleh Shah, folklore of Heer and Sohni and rhymes from folk chants. They also hold within them conventional yet effortless easy-to-make traditional Punjabi dishes.
The paperback has five sections each named after the rivers that make Punjab, i.e., Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej and Beas. The author elaborate upon the mores and gastronomy that matches the innate account of that particular river. For a case in point, all love tales of Punjab are pedestal around Chenab. So Chenab as a part parley in fine detail in relation to Punjabi love fairy-tales of Heer, Mirza Sahiban, Sassi Punnu, et al, harmonized with the food that you can cook for a rendezvous at home.
In an endeavour to make bachelors cook, and chill out, as well as get pleasure from nourishing Punjabi feasts, the recipes from the book largely spotlight on what North Indians on a regular basis cook at home. They are for folks in their mid-twenties to thirties, working and residing away from home and in some way manages to cook.
It is a great volume for newbie cooks or individuals who truly desire to walk around time-honoured Punjabi customs. After going through the book they can cook them in an authentic manner from the basic dals and rotis to refreshments, chutneys, and chaats, to phirni set in a mitti ka kulhad, to a char-grill shindig set up under the wintry weather.
This paperback is a narrative of a Punjabi and her cooking, where the food went further than satisfying her appetite to her mind. There is as well an enchanting assortment of Punjabi food recipes, information on Punjabi way of life and of course the most celebrated love legends from Punjab.
The book charmingly swathe fundamentals of Punjabi society like fashion, festivals and fairs, customs, love folklore, song and dance. The author takes succinct side trips to provide intriguing information on everything, from Punjabi compositions, religion, ethnicity, and a lot more.
A must have kitchen supplement, this volume showcases food preparation as a de-stressing activity and has the whole lot one can perhaps correlate with Punjabi cooking. It is an essential paperback that will help preserve a few of the finer niceties in relation to a delicate gastronomy of India.
Bona fide and agreeable, patent and delicate, the book is peppered with sketches that warms the spirit and will kindle your individual reminiscences of your much-loved family recipes. This book is a pleasure to read where the reader can in fact sense that he or she is present in a typical Punjabi family. The reader can be acquainted with a lot with reference to Punjabi customs just by reading this volume which is supposed to be a cookery book.
Beyond doubt, a food for soul, the paperback has it all and walks around the quintessence of Punjabi food and way of life, along with their customs. The book sacraments and looks at all that intrigue Punjabis and others towards Punjabis in the midst of rhymes, verses, adorable anecdotes and lip-smacking delicacies.
The author coalesce an assortment of recipes as well as bring alive the reality so that one can more or less experience a culture through its food through uplifting stories and nippy effortless recipes.
With an alluring, edifying, enriching, innovative, invigorating, witty, and wistful volume the chapters marries traditions with food. The pages are also sprinkled with the entwines of Patiala Salwars, Phulkari, Turbans, Bhangra, Lohri, verses of Bulleh Shah, folklore of Heer and Sohni and rhymes from folk chants. They also hold within them conventional yet effortless easy-to-make traditional Punjabi dishes.
The paperback has five sections each named after the rivers that make Punjab, i.e., Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Sutlej and Beas. The author elaborate upon the mores and gastronomy that matches the innate account of that particular river. For a case in point, all love tales of Punjab are pedestal around Chenab. So Chenab as a part parley in fine detail in relation to Punjabi love fairy-tales of Heer, Mirza Sahiban, Sassi Punnu, et al, harmonized with the food that you can cook for a rendezvous at home.
In an endeavour to make bachelors cook, and chill out, as well as get pleasure from nourishing Punjabi feasts, the recipes from the book largely spotlight on what North Indians on a regular basis cook at home. They are for folks in their mid-twenties to thirties, working and residing away from home and in some way manages to cook.
It is a great volume for newbie cooks or individuals who truly desire to walk around time-honoured Punjabi customs. After going through the book they can cook them in an authentic manner from the basic dals and rotis to refreshments, chutneys, and chaats, to phirni set in a mitti ka kulhad, to a char-grill shindig set up under the wintry weather.
This paperback is a narrative of a Punjabi and her cooking, where the food went further than satisfying her appetite to her mind. There is as well an enchanting assortment of Punjabi food recipes, information on Punjabi way of life and of course the most celebrated love legends from Punjab.
The book charmingly swathe fundamentals of Punjabi society like fashion, festivals and fairs, customs, love folklore, song and dance. The author takes succinct side trips to provide intriguing information on everything, from Punjabi compositions, religion, ethnicity, and a lot more.
A must have kitchen supplement, this volume showcases food preparation as a de-stressing activity and has the whole lot one can perhaps correlate with Punjabi cooking. It is an essential paperback that will help preserve a few of the finer niceties in relation to a delicate gastronomy of India.
Beyond doubt, a food for soul, the paperback has it all and walks around the quintessence of Punjabi food and way of life, along with their customs. The book sacraments and looks at all that intrigue Punjabis and others towards Punjabis in the midst of rhymes, verses, adorable anecdotes and lip-smacking delicacies.
