The Essential North-East Cookbook
For most food lovers, North-East India remains a curious blind spot. The region's kitchens have been quietly producing some of the country's most distinctive cooking for generations, yet it rarely gets the attention it deserves. Hauzel Hoihnu's cookbook sets out to change that. The food here has deep roots in tribal tradition, drawing on jungle produce and age-old techniques. Over time, though, it absorbed influences from neighbouring cultures: Thai communities who once governed parts of the territory, Chinese neighbours just across the border, and Bengali migrants who brought their own flavours with them. That unlikely mix of influences is precisely what gives North-Eastern cuisine its singular character. This updated edition now covers all eight states, Sikkim included, offering a wide collection of recipes that range from the reassuringly familiar to the genuinely surprising. Whether you're an adventurous home cook or simply tired of making the same dishes on rotation, it's a book that brings something genuinely fresh to the table. Ordinary ingredients, approached differently, can produce extraordinary results, and that quiet revelation sits at the heart of this collection.
- Author: Hauzel Hoihnu
- Publisher: Penguin
- Genre: Cooking & Culinary Arts
- ISBN: 978-0143423881
- Pages: 224 pages