Bharti Kirchner Books in Order

This cookbook introduces the regional cooking of Bengal through recipes for vegetables, dals, chicken, breads, chutneys, and sweets. Kirchner explains preparation techniques while emphasizing dishes that use relatively modest amounts of fat, salt, and sugar.

Kirchner blends Indian flavors with ingredients and dishes encountered in her travels, creating recipes for an international table. Breakfasts, appetizers, seafood, meat, vegetables, pasta, and breads appear alongside personal food memories and suggested menus for serving.

Focusing on Bengali cuisine, this collection introduces regional flavors through recipes such as spice-roasted chicken and fish with cashew-pistachio sauce. Sauces and side dishes accompany the main courses, offering an introduction to this part of India's cooking.

More than 150 vegetarian recipes combine influences from India and cuisines around the world. Kirchner includes guidance on pantry ingredients, substitutions, and serving ideas, using spices, textures, and cooking methods to develop flavor in meatless dishes.

This cookbook offers fifty meatless burgers made from ingredients including tofu, grains, beans, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. Recipes draw on international flavors, while separate chapters supply side dishes, sauces, and condiments to complete the meal.

On the eve of her thirty-fifth birthday, San Francisco systems manager Meena Kumari returns to India to reconnect with her origins. Memories of an interrupted childhood marriage complicate her search for belonging and her current romantic relationship.

Chicago-raised artist Sharmila Sen travels to India for an arranged marriage, hoping to connect with her heritage. Doubts about her fiancé, his controlling family, and his first wife's death complicate a growing friendship with their chauffeur.

Separated for years by their love for the same man, sisters Aloka and Sujata return to their family's Darjeeling tea plantation. Their grandmother's birthday gathering brings jealousy, exile, and unresolved romantic loyalties back into painful focus.

Seattle bakery owner Sunya Malhotra faces competition from a chain store while romantic and family troubles undermine her confidence. Having lost her touch for baking, she considers a Japanese school where mindfulness shapes the approach to pastry.

When domestic-violence counselor Kareena Sinha disappears, her friend Mitra Basu refuses to accept the police's dismissive explanation. The landscape designer's search leads from Seattle to India, exposing a dangerous connection with a Bollywood actor and Mumbai's underworld.

Rescued from her husband's funeral pyre, seventeen-year-old widow Moorti finds employment with English merchant Job Charnock. Renamed Maria, she learns English and pursues ambitions beyond servitude amid the obstacles of life among traders in seventeenth-century India.

Seattle investigator Maya Mallick examines the death of a young scientist during a violent street protest. The case leaves her with difficult questions about the woman's work and the circumstances that led to her public sacrifice.

A publisher is murdered while vacationing in India's Andaman Islands, drawing Seattle private investigator Maya Mallick into the case. Because the victim was a friend's husband, investigating his concealed life puts personal loyalties alongside questions of murder.

Seattle investigator Maya Mallick travels to Jaipur with her mother to investigate a missing rare ruby. A vanished chauffeur and a woman's death complicate the case, while family secrets make it difficult for Maya to know whom she can trust.