Delicious International Cuisine

This cookbook is for vegetarians and nonvegetarians alike, a smorgasbord of dishes from a unique experience and knowledge that will complement anyone's cooking experience. It is a Commonsense Beginners Guide to Nutritious, Spontaneous Ayurvedic Cooking. The dishes and recipes are a byproduct of the natural, simple Vedic principles of healthy living that is a natural part of the cuisine of India and our favorite cuisines around the world. In this lactose-vegetarian cookbook there are two basic sections, Part I: The Cuisine of: India: and Part II: International Cuisine. The recipes are all noteworthy creations with simple directions that are easy to follow.

Part I – starts with learning the basics of cooking and cuisine from India, with a variety of a dozen different sections of traditional type dishes -- drinks, raita salads, rice, dahl, curries, special entrees, chutneys, unleavened breads, and sweets.

Part II has a half dozen different traditional cuisines from our favorite cultures around the world with a smorgasbord of soups, salads, homemade dressings, condiments, sauces, desserts, breakfast and dinner recipes and dishes.

Scott Peterson was born and raised in the Seattle area by parents who enjoyed cooking natural health foods. Scott has been a vegetarian cook since 1979 cooking for meditation groups, guests, and courses mostly in North America, and India, including three years cooking in a meditation ashram in the Himalayas. This book is the culmination of Scott's cooking experience creating and revising recipes incorporating Ayurvedic principles of healthy living with cooking traditions around the world.