Vegan Indian Cooking: 140 Simple and Healthy Vegan Recipes

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Indian Spices 102
My last book included a primer on
Indian spices (Indian Spices 101). I’ve
included all that information and more in
this book, so it’s Indian Spices 102!
It may surprise you to learn this, but
spices don’t just look and smell nice.
They also have many health benefits.
Indians have known this for centuries,
and they use common spices to cure
everything from a cough to a
stomachache and even to help heal
broken bones.
In our home, my young girls know to
ask for turmeric-and-black-cardamom-
spiced chai (tea) if they’re home from
school with a cold. Whenever she

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