'Amrikan' cookbook adapts Indian recipes and flavors for American palates and pantries

When people who moved from India to the U.S. want to make food from back home, they often have to improvise with available American ingredients. On the other hand, they often infuse traditional American recipes with Indian species and other ingredients.

The marrying of American and Indian flavors is the focus of food writer Khushbu Shah’s new cookbook, "Amrikan: 125 Recipes from the Indian American Diaspora.”