{"id":219,"date":"2007-04-04T06:21:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T06:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=219"},"modified":"2007-04-04T06:21:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T06:21:22","slug":"food_for_though-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought &#8211; Vij&#8217;s Cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/images\/2007\/04\/04\/vik_and_meeru.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"241\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Vik_and_meeru\" title=\"Vik_and_meeru\" src=\"\/images\/2007-small\/04\/04\/vik_and_meeru.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>This week on Food For Thought, meet Meeru Dhalwala and Vikram Vij, owners and operators of Vancouver&#8217;s most famous East Indian restaurant, Vij&#8217;s.&nbsp; Here is the <a href=\"\/files\/fft-apr04-07.mp3\">audio file<\/a>  of today&#8217;s documentary. Their first cookbook, <strong><em>Vij&#8217;s<\/em>, <em>Elegant &amp; Inspired Indian Cuisine<\/em><\/strong> was published to great acclaim last fall.&nbsp; If you want to give it a try before you buy, here is the famous Vij <a href=\"\/files\/lamb_popsicles.doc\">recipe<\/a>  for &#8216;lamb popsicles&#8217;!<\/p>\n<p>You can find a few more recipes to try at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vijs.ca\/index_in.htm\">Vij&#8217;s<\/a> website, and don&#8217;t forget about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vijsrangoli.ca\/\">Rangoli<\/a>, a little shop and diner right next to Vij&#8217;s which sells frozen and refrigerated ready-to-eat Indian dishes as well as freshly roasted and ground Indian spices.&nbsp; The diner<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vijsrangoli.ca\/diner\/index.html\"><strong><\/strong><\/a> serves a small, five to six item lunch menu for eating in or take out.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/2007\/04\/04\/vijs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/images\/2007-small\/04\/04\/vijs.jpg\" title=\"Vijs\" alt=\"Vijs\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a> You can save 37 percent off the cover price of the cookbook by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1553651847\/pacificpala0d-20\">here<\/a> and ordering from amazon.ca! And be proud of the fact you&#8217;ve donated about $1 to help me keep my website and blog running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on Food For Thought, meet Meeru Dhalwala and Vikram Vij, owners and operators of Vancouver&#8217;s most famous East Indian restaurant, Vij&#8217;s.&nbsp; Here is the audio file of today&#8217;s documentary. Their first cookbook, Vij&#8217;s, Elegant &amp; Inspired Indian Cuisine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food_for_though-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}