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    <body><![CDATA[I recommend the canned chickpeas with garlic and ginger.  It has  opened my eyes to the virtues of asafatida powder-- it smells very strongly of rotting onions and garlic but is delicious when used in proper amounts and in the proper dishes.<br/><br/>My wife is also getting good with the samosas a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22828633">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my Indian cooking bible from <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Madhur Jaffrey" title=" Madhur Jaffrey"> Madhur Jaffrey</a>, prodigous cookbook author and (incidentally) Indian film star. Her guide to putting together spice mixtures and base ingredients is invaluable, and her recipes are easily flexible to substitutions.]]></body>
    
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