Hindu Festivals Cookbook

These beautiful highly illustrated holiday cookbooks give readers a virtual taste of those special dishes unique to four major religious and cultural traditions. Students will discover the diverse backgrounds of serving these special foods during the holiday season. Step-by-step instructions, along with corresponding full-color photographs, provide the reader with complete directions for successful completion of the recipe. A handy ""At-a-Glance" list of ingredients and equipment is included along with helpful safety and hygiene notes!

Gr 3-5-Series titles that consider the foods of religious or secular celebrations. The formats are identical: a holiday is described, two or three recipes are presented, then information is given about other ways the day or festivity is marked. In each book, three holidays are examined (Holi, Divali, and Ganesh Chaturthi in the first title, and Chinese New Year, Dragon Boat, and Mid-Autumn in the second). Appealing color photographs inform readers both atmospherically and literally: scenes of busy preparations and celebrations accompany the holiday descriptions, and small photographs illustrate the instructions. The directions are clear, encouraging, and not too difficult. Safety and allergy precautions are included. Each volume concludes with equipment, cooking, and food notes. Many of these holidays will be new to readers and being introduced to the foods associated with them is a great way to encourage interest in them.-Carolyn Jenks, First Parish Unitarian Church, Portland, ME Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.