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What you may reuse
- Our own content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), to the extent Decent Espresso Ltd holds rights in it: the recipe descriptions, the method wording, the spice-mix names and notes, the nutrition, heat and fragrance figures, portions, substitutes and diet swaps, similar-dish comparisons, and the AI-generated dish and ingredient pictures.
- The recipe facts (recipe names, ingredients and amounts, servings, times and regions) come from India: Cookbook by Pushpesh Pant (Phaidon 2010), Curry by Maunika Gowardhan (Quadrille 2025), Thali: Create and Eat Indian Thalis at Home by Maunika Gowardhan (Hardie Grant 2021), Tandoori Home Cooking by Maunika Gowardhan (Hardie Grant 2023), Indian Kitchen: Secrets of Indian Home Cooking by Maunika Gowardhan (Hodder & Stoughton 2015), Kricket: An Indian-inspired Cookbook by Will Bowlby (Hardie Grant 2018). Facts like these can't be copyrighted (US Copyright Office, Circular 33: a “mere listing of ingredients” is not protected), so we claim no rights in them and offer no licence for them. None of the books' own writing is reproduced: the method wording is ours. Please buy the books.
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