Madhur Jaffrey

Shrimp and rice with fresh Indian spices, her guest episode of In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs, PBS, 1995 Already a celebrated actress, with a Berlin Silver Bear for Shakespeare Wallah, and the author of An Invitation to Indian Cooking (1973), Jaffrey fronted Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookery for the BBC in 1982, the first mainstream British series about Indian food and the first presented by an Indian. That series is hard to find today, but this later visit to Julia Child's kitchen streams on PBS stations. She cooks a southern Indian shrimp dish in a spicy coconut sauce with basmati rice and shows how to turn the intensity of the spices up or down, a useful lesson for anyone new to Indian cooking.