Aline Dobbie

I studied the Renaissance 30 years ago and this fleshes it out makes it so human

This is a most favourite series showing the cuisines of my beloved India and I recommend it strongly . I have the DVD too

We both, spouse and I, enjoy James on cooking. He normally has easy to follow recipes that are sometimes very simple and sometimes have a few more ingredients, but his attitude to food is what I like with no mannerisms. We have a couple of his books too. I have just printed off his chicken tagine recipe as I watched him prepare it this afternoon. Chicken recipes are something one cannot have too many of, this is going to be made by the week-end. Both of us are already competent cooks, with a knowledge of Indian cuisine and also Pan Asian. These days cooking is such a real pleasure and Good Food adds to this knowledge and is so enjoyable.

This is quite simply the best account of the story of India, this vast subcontinent from the beginning of its ancient civilisations. It is well done with the warmth and affection that Michael Wood obviously feels for India. I am a critical viewer as though Scots I am the last of five generations who served, lived, loved and died in India and I too write about the land of my birth. I have bought numerous copies of the DVD to give to many of my Indian friends who had not seen it to educate them too on their great land!