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At a time when there was no way to write cookbooks in Bengali, Pragyasundari Devi wrote six volumes of this legendary cookbook of various non-vegetarian and non-vegetarian recipes. Thakurbari's daughter Pragyasundari—child of Hemendranath, wife of Assamese literary figure Lakshminath Bejbarua. He took cooking as an art. Culinary practice for him was the disciplined practice of a creative act. At that time, Pragyasundari also picked up a pen to invite Vasudhakutumba to the joy of creation. This book is the fruit of that joy. In fact, the first volume of the book 'Vegetarian and Vegetarian Diet' was published in the first decade of the last century. Pragyasundari Devi has arranged this large book in sections describing the traditional cooking techniques of Bengali homes along with her self-invented over two thousand recipes. Pragyasundari's cookbooks are not only pioneers as cookery books, but the introductions Pragyapluta has written in various volumes of this book, even today after all this time, deserve the status of an essential first reading of home economics. In fact, Pragyasundari Devi's Mahagrantha is the last word of the cookbook. In addition to the recipes printed in this six-volume tome, several cookbook manuscripts have been discovered after the author's death. This new publication plan of the book 'Amish and Niramish Ahar' has been taken by collecting those works in several well-planned volumes. The first part covers the vegetarian recipes. It's hard to imagine a vegetarian recipe that isn't in this book. This volume is a self-contained text book on vegetarian diet. Every part of the book has been made up-to-date with appropriate annotations. Attached is a complete alphabetical list of included recipes.