This book is great. Where I'm from originally there is a huge Indian community and many Balti restaurants that sell Indian cuisine. The recipes in this book taste authentic to that experience, they give both the British and American words for ingredients and weights, and the Naan bread recipe is easily adaptable for a bread maker if you have one. It's beautifully illustrated with full color photos for each step and the instructions are very clear. If you pop into an Indian grocery store you can purchase the many spices used in the recipes for a fraction of the cost of buying them in a regular supermarket.