Published to accompany a new 6-part series on BBC2 in the summer of 2013, this sees Stein set off on a trip round India in search of the perfect curry. Indian food is hugely popular in the UK, "Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey" sold more than 130,000 copies, and "Rick Stein's Spain" more than 90,000...
Whenever I hear the word curry, I'm filled with a longing for spicy hot food with the fragrance of cumin, cloves and cinnamon. I see deep red colours from lots of Kashmiri chillis, tinged with a suggestion of yellow from turmeric. I think of the tandoor oven, and slightly scorched naan shining wi...