Indian curries were voted Britain’s favourite dish for many years. No surprise then that curry is the subject of this new book by David Esslemont, whose passion for food, cooking and making books coalesced in 2013 with Chili: a pictorial recipe.
There are many different ways to cook curry – this transcript of a conversation with a taxi driver describes just one approach and was recorded at 4.30 a.m. while travelling between terminals at London’s Heathrow airport.
The woodcuts are based on kolam, Indian designs that are created outside homes to bring prosperity and ward off evil spirits.
Fifty copies hand printed from the original wood- blocks, the text from polymer plates, bound as follows: forty-five copies in cloth-covered boards, presented in a drop-back box – $460 ($360 pre publication) and five copies in a deluxe binding (details on request). 175 x 254 mm ( 7 x 10 ins) landscape, 24pp, 10 woodcuts. To be published in March 2015 by Solmentes Press.
