Eat your way around India’s regional and seasonal vegetarian cuisine with comprehensive cookbook

Food obviously played a key role in Pushpesh Pant’s childhood. In his introduc­tion to The Indian Vegetarian Cookbook (2018), he writes that he was raised by an extended family in Mukteshwar, “a small, sleepy town, practically a village in the Himalayas, which was inaccess­ible by car until the mid-1950s. One had to depend on local and seasonal produce almost all year round – except in the summer when fruits and vegetables from the plains were imported more easily....