From the back cover:

The mouth-watering cuisine of Bengal is a cuisine of the home kitchen, a naturally healthy and savory type of cooking that you won't find in any Indian restaurant. The Healthy Cuisine of India is your personal invitation to a Bengali home to enjoy dishes carefully handed down through the generations.

Bharti Kirchner, and award-winning cook, spent her childhood in Kalimpong, a bustling market town in the foothills of the Himalayas near Darjeeling. Thereafter she lived for several years in Bangladesh before moving to Calcutta as a teenager. Her recipes have appeared in Bon Appétit, Vegetarian Times, and Eating Well magazines. She now lives in Seattle, where she pursues a full-time writing career.