Well, the very fact that I am willing to let you have my copy for next to nothing suggests that I don't rate it very highly ... I had a few online exchanges with the author when I first received my copy, particularly w.r.t. the use of milk in pulao rice, and he initially seemed very open to discussion and input, but when I asked him whether he really thought that (for example) replacing the word "chicken" on page 77 by the phrase "beef or lamb" really justified adding two pages to the text and a concomitant increase in price, he went very quiet. Of course, Dave Lloyden is by no means the only author to pretend that (for example) "Beef or lamb achar pall" is a totally different recipe to "Chicken achar pall", but the amateurish typesetting made it only too plain that in his case at least, it was a clear case of "clone pages 76--97 as pages 98--119, replacing all instances of "chicken" by "beef or lamb", and thereby pretend that your book is far longer and more impressive than it really is".
** Phil.
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