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SECRETS OF THE INDIAN RESTAURANT CHEFS REVEALED
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Tazmanian
2004-09-26 02:39:55 UTC
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`SECRETS OF THE INDIAN RESTAURANT CHEFS REVEALED`

Anyone tried this Ebook and know wether it's any good or not?
(Currently selling for about £10.00 Online)

Tazzy
MarkJ
2004-09-26 08:04:44 UTC
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Ive been striving to perfect the indian restaurant curry for about 3 months.
I was about 60% there when I bought this book and its pretty much got me
100% there now.

Some of the recipes are not quite right (its chicken tikka masala is flat
wrong) but it has a number of recipes that are perfect (Madras, Dopiaza,
Jalfrezi).

It uses the standard formula of making a big batch of curry sauce and then
producing all the curries from that and its recipe for the base curry sauce
is the best I have seen that makes any great quantity (curryhouse.co.uk is
the best recipe for the base sauce but it only produces tiny amounts). This
book also gives a great way to pre cook chicken that makes it as tender as
you get in a restaurant.

So in short the book is great, also the author is very keen to chat on
email, its very good value.
b***@earthlink.net
2004-09-28 16:01:24 UTC
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i am in america (NEW england to be vague) and i have no access, i think? to
purchasing this book..or do i?

can someone, PLEASE tell me where i can go to purchase this book with
american dollars (don't live anywhere near a bank big enough that deals with
trans-foreign monies)?? please?? i would be internally grateful.
Newsgroups: uk.food+drink.indian
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 09:04:44 +0100
Subject: Re: SECRETS OF THE INDIAN RESTAURANT CHEFS REVEALED
So in short the book is great, also the author is very keen to chat on
email, its very good value.
MarkJ
2004-09-28 17:10:13 UTC
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http://www.yakety.net/currybook.htm

Regards
Elaine Jones
2004-09-28 18:42:31 UTC
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Quoting from message <YTg6d.60$***@fe05.usenetserver.com>
posted on 28 Sep 2004 by MarkJ
Post by MarkJ
http://www.yakety.net/currybook.htm
From the site:

<quote>

An ebook is like a real book - it has pages that you can turn
but it's available to you instantly after purchase. There's no
waiting, and no expensive shipping & handling fees. You can
read it on your computer screen or print it out if you wish and
read it at your leisure. Compatible with Windows
95/98/Me/NT/XP Requires Internet Explorer 5 or over.

</quote>

I can't use IE on this OS - are ebooks in HTML?
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Joe Blogs
2004-09-28 20:47:03 UTC
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Hi Elanie,

I beleive that the book is in a PDF format, you would need "Adobe Acrobat
Reader" to view it, you can download this progy free at the Adobe site.

Thanks for all the info on your site.

Joe
Post by Elaine Jones
posted on 28 Sep 2004 by MarkJ
Post by MarkJ
http://www.yakety.net/currybook.htm
<quote>
An ebook is like a real book - it has pages that you can turn
but it's available to you instantly after purchase. There's no
waiting, and no expensive shipping & handling fees. You can
read it on your computer screen or print it out if you wish and
read it at your leisure. Compatible with Windows
95/98/Me/NT/XP Requires Internet Explorer 5 or over.
</quote>
I can't use IE on this OS - are ebooks in HTML?
--
...ElaineJ... Home Pages and FAQ of uk.food+drink.indian can be viewed at
...Kinetic... http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ejones/ufdi/index.html
..StrongArm.. Under construction, FAQ, recipes, tips, booklist, links
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Elaine Jones
2004-09-28 22:29:01 UTC
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Quoting from message <***@uni-berlin.de>
posted on 28 Sep 2004 by Joe Blogs
Post by Joe Blogs
Post by Elaine Jones
posted on 28 Sep 2004 by MarkJ
<quote>
An ebook is like a real book - it has pages that you can turn
but it's available to you instantly after purchase. There's no
waiting, and no expensive shipping & handling fees. You can
read it on your computer screen or print it out if you wish and
read it at your leisure. Compatible with Windows
95/98/Me/NT/XP Requires Internet Explorer 5 or over.
</quote>
I can't use IE on this OS - are ebooks in HTML?
Hi Elanie,
Hello Joe
Post by Joe Blogs
I beleive that the book is in a PDF format, you would need "Adobe Acrobat
Reader" to view it, you can download this progy free at the Adobe site.
Thanks, I did think that PDF would be a more logical format (and the OS
which I use has a reader). I do get annoyed with sites which say that
IE is necessary - if the site is properly written it should not be browser
dependent.
Post by Joe Blogs
Thanks for all the info on your site.
By far the major part is quotes from the group; I did finish up with an
excess of pulses when I was taking the pics for those pages, I might get
round to doing the same for spices one day (or two or three... ).
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MarkJ
2004-09-29 11:17:58 UTC
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The book is a windows executable (.exe), not a pdf, even so it may recall
I.E. to be installed

regards
Mojo
2004-10-01 23:53:04 UTC
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Post by Joe Blogs
I beleive that the book is in a PDF format
<snip>

It's a windows executable, not a .pdf, so all it needs to run is
windows itself. It's self-contained (and very nicely done too -
complete with animated pages and so on).
--
Mojo.
MarkJ
2004-10-02 05:55:39 UTC
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Post by Mojo
It's a windows executable, not a .pdf, so all it needs to run is
windows itself. It's self-contained (and very nicely done too -
complete with animated pages and so on).
It may still require IE (I dont think it does but it could be using IE via
COM)

regards
John Hall
2004-09-28 18:18:31 UTC
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Post by b***@earthlink.net
i am in america (NEW england to be vague) and i have no access, i think? to
purchasing this book..or do i?
can someone, PLEASE tell me where i can go to purchase this book with
american dollars (don't live anywhere near a bank big enough that deals with
trans-foreign monies)?? please?? i would be internally grateful.
Assuming that you have a credit card, then you ought to be able to
purchase any book recently published in the UK from www.yahoo.co.uk
--
John Hall
"One half of the world cannot understand
the pleasures of the other."
From "Emma" by Jane Austen (1775-1817)
John Hall
2004-09-28 21:00:37 UTC
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Post by John Hall
Post by b***@earthlink.net
i am in america (NEW england to be vague) and i have no access, i think? to
purchasing this book..or do i?
can someone, PLEASE tell me where i can go to purchase this book with
american dollars (don't live anywhere near a bank big enough that deals with
trans-foreign monies)?? please?? i would be internally grateful.
Assuming that you have a credit card, then you ought to be able to
purchase any book recently published in the UK from www.yahoo.co.uk
Apologies for the irrelevance of my answer. I hadn't released that we
were talking about an e-book rather than a conventional one.
--
John Hall
"One half of the world cannot understand
the pleasures of the other."
From "Emma" by Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Elaine Jones
2004-09-28 22:19:36 UTC
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Quoting from message <4DY$***@jhall.demon.co.uk>
posted on 28 Sep 2004 by John Hall
Post by John Hall
Post by John Hall
Assuming that you have a credit card, then you ought to be able to
purchase any book recently published in the UK from www.yahoo.co.uk
Apologies for the irrelevance of my answer. I hadn't released that we
were talking about an e-book rather than a conventional one.
Well you can't tell until you get to the website (although the first post
did state that it was an ebook -but I'd forgotten when I went to have a
look)
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Elaine Jones
2004-09-28 18:44:13 UTC
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Post by b***@earthlink.net
i am in america (NEW england to be vague) and i have no access, i think? to
purchasing this book..or do i?
can someone, PLEASE tell me where i can go to purchase this book with
american dollars (don't live anywhere near a bank big enough that deals with
trans-foreign monies)?? please?? i would be internally grateful.
The book is about making UK restaurant style curries - so you'd find that
"Madras" which you were asking about in another thread.
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...ElaineJ... Home Pages and FAQ of uk.food+drink.indian can be viewed at
...Kinetic... http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ejones/ufdi/index.html
..StrongArm.. Under construction, FAQ, recipes, tips, booklist, links
...RISC PC... Questions and suggestions please, email or to the newsgroup
MarkJ
2004-09-29 11:19:43 UTC
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Post by Elaine Jones
The book is about making UK restaurant style curries - so you'd find that
"Madras" which you were asking about in another thread.
And I can confirm that the Madras in this book is superb (and of restaurant
quality)

regards
Mojo
2004-10-01 23:48:45 UTC
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Post by MarkJ
Ive been striving to perfect the indian restaurant curry for about 3 months.
I was about 60% there when I bought this book and its pretty much got me
100% there now.
Yea, I hate to say "Me too!" but, erm, "Me too!".

I really recommend this eBook, it's well worth buying.

Great recipes, and *very* close to the sort of thing you'd get in a
curry house.

I know, because I'm a Londoner based in the Azores, and this book
solved my Brit-restaurant-style-curry craving. :-)
--
Mojo.
pphil
2004-10-04 10:18:34 UTC
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Post by Tazmanian
`SECRETS OF THE INDIAN RESTAURANT CHEFS REVEALED`
Anyone tried this Ebook and know wether it's any good or not?
(Currently selling for about £10.00 Online)
Tazzy
Id be a bit careful spoke to someone who had this ebook and after installing
SP2 for Windows XP it no longer runs!!

It's an .exe file rather than a pdf or whatever a proper ebook should be.
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