Around India's First Table (English, Hardcover, Publications Division of the Ministry of Information, Broadcasting of the Govt of India)

This volume traces the history of dining and entertaining at Rastrapati Bhavan from the days when the British viceroys served french food in the stately dinning room, through the early years of the republic , and the gradual replacement from Western to Indian Cuisine . The reader is taken behind the scenes to follow the careful preparations which India's first table a site for successful gastronomic diplomacy.