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Hari Nayak
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- Published: 22 May 2008
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Hari Nayak is an internationally renowned chef & food writer with several successful ventures as a restaurateur, author, and food service consultant. He is one of the top Indian chefs in North America today. Hari's signature style of cooking is distinctly featured in his latest cookbook "Modern Indian Cooking". Chef Hari has pioneered the next generation of Indian Cooking with this cookbook. Hari believes in creating classic Indian dishes by using simplistic techniques along with a delicious juxtaposition of global flavors. This is the first Indian cookbook that eliminates the intimidating factor from Indian cooking and brings it a step closer to the modern lifestyle. This book has been named best of the season by LA times in 2007. For more info log on to http://www.harinayak.com |
Sanjeev Kapoor
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- Category: Famous Indian Chefs
- Published: 15 January 2007
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Sanjeev Kapoor (b. April 1964) is one of the top chefs in India. He has authored many books and is the host of Khana Khazana a popular cookery program shown on Zee TV every Sunday since 1993. The show has completed 450 episodes. He started out in the hospitality industry in 1984 with a diploma in Hotel Management from IIHM (Indian Institute of Hotel Management) Pusa, Catering Technology & Applied Nutrition. he started his career in the ITDC under their kitchen management scheme. He was a topper in his batch. After working in many hotels, he became the Executive Chef of the Centaur Hotel in Mumbai (Bombay). His television show won the Best Cookery Show Award given by the Indian Television Academy (ITA) in 2001. He is also the recipient of the Best Executive Chef of India Award by H & FS and the Mercury Gold Award at Geneva, Switzerland by IFCA. Singapore Airlines recruited him as one of the members of its "International Culinary Panel", helping to create a meal called Shahi Thali in 2006. |
Among the most popular books authored
Khazana of Indian Recipes
Khazana of Healthy Tasty Recipes
Khana Khazana Celebration of Indian Cookery
Low Calorie Vegetarian Cookbook
Any Time Temptations
Microwave Made Easy and Best of Chinese Cooking
CD-ROM on Indian cooking
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Review of Asia Foods Store, West LA
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- Category: Indian Grocery Store Reviews
- Published: 12 February 2008
- Written by Dinesh
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Asia Foods Store is probably the best Indian/Pakistani store in the West Los Angeles/Culver City area. Asia Foods is right there on Venice Blvd, just past Motor Ave if you are driving East on Venice Blvd. The store offers all your standard grocery needs like spices, rice, atta, snacks, frozen foods etc. They have a Halal Meat counter as well. One of the things that is great about this store is they have a very good fresh vegetables section where you can get a decent variety of Indian veggies like Bhindi, Palak, Karela etc. They also have a good selection of fresh herbs like coriander leaves, curry leaves, mint leaves. Most of the other stores in the area are quite poor (with the exception of Samosa House). |
This store is very popular in the area and this means that their products sell out fast and so there is fresh stock on the shelves all the time. Whenever you go to the store (especially in the mornings), you can see them stocking the shelves or adding fresh vegetables. The store owners are very friendly and very helpful (unlike India Sweets and Spices where they are pretty rude in my opinion). You would enjoy shopping here.
Review of A & S Market, West LA
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- Category: Indian Grocery Store Reviews
- Published: 29 January 2008
- Written by Dinesh
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| {mosimage} | A & S Food Market is a little store on the corner of Venice and Midvale Ave. If you are driving on Venice Blvd, you cannot miss it. I typically visit the store for its convenient location (a 2 minute walk from where I live). The store is a standard size Indian grocery store and has about 5-6 aisles of spices, masala pastes, rice, atta and other Indian cooking needs. It also has a fairly big Halal meat section at the back of the store. There is a frozen food section which carries your standard products like milk, juices, frozen vegetables, rotis, parathas etc. |
One of the big factors why I dont shop here is the variety of available items is much smaller that some of the other stores in the West LA area. They have very limited options on most of the items. They also do not carry many fresh vegetables. You will probably find only potatoes, onions, ginger, garlic and tomatoes and if you are lucky some fresh herbs.