Cooking Along the Ganges

About the Book

Cooking Along the Ganges gathers hundreds of recipes that featured on the menu of the renowned Ganges Restaurant in San Francisco. Including a combination of both authentic North Western (Gujarati) and other, regional-Indian recipes, the book offers a unique panorama of the extremely diverse, Indian tradition of vegetarian cooking. For both the novice cook and the expert chef, Cooking Along the Ganges will serve as a detailed guide that will both demystify the intricacies of Indian cookery and illuminate the health-conscious, flavorful recipes for which the Ganges Restaurant is famous.

“All Indian food is not hot; rather it is the variety of spices, and how and when they are added that makes Indian food distinctive.”
-Malvi Doshi

…Malvi, with her generosity of spirit, is as wonderful a teacher as she is a cook. She presents her recipes in clear, accessible language that allows both the novice and the accomplished cook to achieve authentic flavors again and again.
-Michele Anna Jordan, from the Foreword to Cooking Along the Ganges

Reviews for the Ganges Restaurant:

…Hindu vegetarians ascribe important healing properties to certain foods… Too complex for me, I ignored therapeutics at the Ganges and concentrated on the pure pleasure of eating. Malvi Doshi, it turned out, is a genius.
-Sharon Silva, San Francisco Focus Magazine

I’d been enjoying Indian food for more than 30 years, but in this unheralded restaurant on a dark, cold street I tasted dishes I’d only read about.
-Jim Wood, on the Ganges Restaurant, San Francisco Examiner Image Magazine.

Cover illustration ©2002 Arun Kamat
Cover design by Rodwin Pabello (www.rodwin.com)

About the Author

Born in Surat, Gujarat, Malvi Doshi grew up while traveling through India. After living in both New York and Nairobi, Kenya she settled with her family in San Francisco, where she began to write about Indian cooking. Following the publication of her first cookbook, A Surti Touch (Strawberry Hill Press), Chef Doshi and her husband opened the Ganges Restaurant in 1986. Her unique, magnificent vegetarian cooking quickly established her reputation as a premier Indian chef. Now retired, Malvi Doshi resides in Berkeley, California from where she writes and teaches Indian cooking.