Press & Testimonials
"The Indian Delia [Smith] who is credited with having invented chicken tikka masala."
- The Times (UK)
"The best Indian cookbooks ever, as judged by the experts"
- The Telegraph (UK)
"The gold standard for Indian cooking"
- Colleen Taylor Sen, Authority on Indian food.
"The only book that could produce food that tasted like real North Indian...a book that Indians would want to cook from, as all the flavours were true and recognizable."
- Madhur Jaffrey
"The taste of things to come!"(in relation to the origins of chicken tikka masala)
- Peter & Colleen Grove
UK Ethnic Food Historians in their 2010 book Flavours of History
"Thank God for the food historians who trace chicken tikka masala back to Mrs Balbir Singh's Shahi Chicken Masala."
- NDTV (New Delhi Television)
- In "7 Dishes the World Must Thank India For"
"Mrs Balbir Singh is the Julia Child, Mrs Beeton or Martha Stewart of India. To us chefs, she is the big bang moment of modern-day Indian home cookery. In each cuisine, there is always to be found a hero... Mrs Singh has as good a claim to that title for Indian food as anyone."
- Simon Majumdar
Food Writer, Broadcaster, Food Network TV Judge
“We Delhiwallas have forgotten the debt we owe her. Thank you, Mrs Singh."
- The Delhiwalla
Blogger as seen in Lonely Planet, NatGeo, CNNGo, Rough Guides, & The Independent
“I have a very high opinion of Mrs Balbir Singh. She wrote for us Indians... for those who wished to familiarize themselves with more elegant styles of cooking."
- Pushpesh Pant
Noted Academic, Food Critic and Historian.
