I love Amisha’s plant-based Indian dishes with her unique and fresh California spin. Not only are they a feast for the eyes, but a kaleidoscope of amazing flavors, too!

This is a book that pulls at your heartstrings and makes you want to read more and then stock your pantry with everything Indian; sharpen your knives and put on your comfortable shoes because you’re going to want to cook from cover to cover. Every sensuous recipe has a little twist that gives you an ‘ah-ha’ moment like the Chickpea Flour Crepes with Carrot and Purple Cabbage Salad and the Iced Masala Chai Latte with Lavender Foam, to name a few. Amisha has a real hit with Mumbai Modern. This is the cookbook I want on my cookbook shelf and the one I will go to again and again.

Few cooks bring such pure joy and fluency of flavor to their food as Amisha Gurbani. She has absolutely no fear as she crosses cultures, finding surprising combinations of ingredients that just seem born to be together. Amisha has a rare gift, and I’m so glad she’s sharing it with us.

Amisha’s cooking makes me insanely jealous. Her recipes effortlessly weave together the exquisite vegetarian food of Gujarat, the cosmopolitan excitement of Mumbai’s eateries, and the freshness and vibrancy of California cuisine. She’s a cook’s cook, distilling generations of knowledge, instinct, and craft into each dish that ends up always being the best version of it I’ve ever tried. There are a handful of trusted cookbooks in my collection that I go back to over and over again, and Mumbai Modern will easily join that list.

Exquisite flavors from her Indian heritage and exceptional produce from her adopted Californian home inform Amisha’s recipes in this glorious book. Vegetables are made vibrant with numerous spices, stories are told of family and migration, and above all, love is communicated in each and every recipe. A terrific achievement. This is cooking where the heart is.