Simply South: Traditional Vegetarian Cooking

This book is a rare find- vegetarian south Indian recipes that go beyond the typical dosai and idli. I have tried the potato samosi which tasted great. I appreciate that the book includes instructions for pressure cookers (which save time) and is fairly easy to navigate through. I look forward to making some other dishes from the book such as the potato curry from Andra Pradesh.

I am a big fan of Chandra's other book - Dakshin (the recipes work and production of the book is perfect in every way).I decided to get her latest book - Simply South. A huge disappointment.* Pictures of the dishes are totally out of sync with the recipes. There are very few pictures in the first place. If I am going to use a recipe, I want to know how the end result is going to look.* No index in the back. This is a purely moronic decision. If I have carrots and broccoli in the fridge, I need to look at every page of this book before deciding which recipes are applicable to my situation.* The recipes are not tagged or sorted together according to region. For example, I cant just find all the Andhra recipes in one shot.All of these are easy things to do. But they are lacking in this book. I blame it on bad production.Now, the recipes might actually be authentic, but its too much of a pain to use this book effectively.My advice would be to buy a copy of "Dakshin" by the same author instead. I have probably purchased more than 10 copies for various friends, co-workers and family. And they all love it. The production of Dakshin is OUTSTANDING and this book is the exact opposite of Dakshin. I dont understand why an author would go backward in the quality of one's book.

A gem of a book if you want to really cook very nutritious South Indian food that is simply tasty. The sambar and kozhambu recipes are simple divine.

I didn't know there were so many ways to cook okra!! I learned a lot of new vegetarian dishes. Yum yum.

An amazing south Indian cook book.Very wide spectrum of flavours.Well written.The quality of the paper which it was print on is cheap however it does not effect the tasty out come.I am just addicted to the coconut chutney

I would like a fresh copy rather than slightly damaged

This book is a real find!! Coming from a Tamil Brahmin family, I thought most of these recipes would be known to me and I was hesitant to buy this. But I went ahead and I am really glad I did. There are twists and ingredients that I would have not thought of adding had I not read it here. I am trying out a few of the sambhars and mor Kuzambu. I love a few of the chutney recipes too. Looking forward to trying out these recipes...

Nice collection of south Indian recipes mainly tamil nadu this time with few from other states/communities as well