The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook

by Grace Gardiner and Flora Annie Steel

Book Overview

Brisk, capable, humorous, highly opinionated, and frequently ironic, The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook opens a fascinating window on the day-to-day life of the British in India in the late nineteenth century. Steel and Gardiner's mission to uphold Victorian standards in Indian kitchens has illuminating parallels with the running of the British Empire, and their domestic guide reveals as much about British attitudes to India as any history book...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019955014X
• ISBN13: 9780199550142
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.4" x 7.8"