Thank you to John Isaac for insisting on my penning down the recipes he had tasted while staying with me, and for so much more. Thank you to Vedika Anand for all her support in this venture; for digitizing all of my recipes and putting them together. I would also like to thank my granddaughter Saniya for writing the foreword, and for her various inputs in compiling the recipes. And finally, to my son Ranjan: without his help in the final stages, this book would have never seen the light of day.