wrapped: crepes, wraps and rolls you can make at home

Description

The fashion for small bites and street food still holds sway. Many of the world's cuisines centre their snack food around fillings for pancakes or wraps. Every country has a favourite way of serving these snacks and they are fun and easy to prepare. This eye-catching international collection of 80 recipes covers breakfasts, lunches, simple snacks, easy suppers and desserts. Think crepes, galettes, enchiladas, burritos, latkes, chapatis, roti, dosa, brik, kebab wraps, Chinese pancakes, American griddle cakes and buttermilk dessert pancakes... it's a truly exciting mix. Perfect for students, busy singles, family cooks, children and foodies interested in international recipe collections and streetfood.

Gaitri Pagrach-Chandra has a multi-cultural background - in her own words "a convent-attending Guyanese Hindu of Indianancestry, who was educated in North America and Europe and subsequently married into a European Jewish family". A food historian and freelance translator, she has already authored a book on Dutch baking - 'Windmills in my Oven' (Prospect Books, 2002). In 2000, she received the Sophie Coe award for food history, presented by the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. She lives in the Netherlands.