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Thanks for the feedback. I am happy to have the opportunity to address those questions here:

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Hi all,

Thanks for the welcoming, I understand the initial suspicion until Madrasandy prompted me to write an introduction.

Regarding the question 'Do you think your book could assist a veteran?', to answer that question I would first ask myself the same thing (I have a fair bit of experience with this too). So, 'would I bother to buy a BIR style cookery book? ANSWR: Probably not. But that doesn't mean to say that there wouldn't be anything I would learn from it.

I'm aware of the general BIR videos so I wanted to focus on some elements in the book to make it different in terms of a 'deeper' knowledge and flavour. That's why I included an excellent and seem-idly little known technique for making seasoned oil (without having do resort to cooking 40+ onion bhajis or adding more oil to a base gravy and skimming the excess oil off to cook with). That's just one example of how my book differs.

And just like Madrasandy said, the smell of this oil alone is addictive. I even got a hint of the smell writing about it.


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Thank you very much for your approval guys. I appreciate that. It's a great site and full of interesting reads.

I'm actually in the process of trying to get hold of some older curry books. I'll be definitely upload any worthy recipes.

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Thanks for all your kind encouragement. I am really please to be a part of this forum. I very much look forward to chatting more.

As for a digital release. Would that mean an eBook (published on Kindle, etc)? If so, I personally find Ebooks albeit cheaper to be not very favourable. So many people don't like reading things off a screen and like to have a physical copy in their hands. The only time I bought a Kindle book I sent it back to Amazon almost immediately because I wasn't even able to download it onto my computer and had to be on-line to access it. I felt like I didn't really own the book.

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My name's Steven Heap and I'm 39 years old (40 on the 4th March) and I'm fanatical about South Asian food.

The fascination began as a toddler watching (and smelling) my grandfather cooking curries regularly. As I grew older I learnt that my grandfather has spent quite a bit of time in India during WW2 (Bombay, Calcutta, Chennai, etc) and the curry recipes he was using where all given to him by other servicemen from various Asian Commonwealth countries comprising different religions and from various regions. I didn't know it then but he was actually cooking authentic Indian food and it wasn't until I was around 20 and living by myself that I decided to cook my first curry based on what I had seen my grandfather cook.

My passion for cooking Indian food sprang from that first curry cooking experience. As an avid reader I read every book I could my hands on about Indian food and also about the geography, cultures and history of the food.

After graduating from university I finally had money in my pocket and could actually go and visit these wonderful places that I'd been reading about and visited 34 countries. My food knowledge and passion increased considerably but each time I came back to the UK to stare out of an office window and see that murky grey sky I decided I wanted a more full-time experience of Asia.

I sat 3 English teaching qualifications and finally in 2009 during the recession, my company needed to make some redundancies. This was my big chance for adventure. I actually volunteered my redundancy and was quickly going back to explore more of India and Sri Lanka. I soaked up the food and discussed recipes and cooking techniques with anyone who could speak English, including people in their own homes and restaurant chefs. What's great about exploring food in Asia is that a lot of the cooking in done outside and there isn

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Good morning all,

Sorry I didn

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