Following a couple of phone calls last night, I've finally, it seems, jerked a couple of chef mates into action.
First thing is an Indian Street Food evening at a local restaurant. Great friend, I've known him for about 35 years, ever since he was an apprentice, but he's not very communicative, so I have to kickstart him into action. I spent the morning painstakingly writing down all the dishes and all the ingredients required on a spreadsheet, and now I'm cross-eyed and my brain hurts, but the spreadsheet is done. Meeting at 2pm so we can work out (a) which dishes we're going to make and (b) cost them.
This evening is going to involve preparing a rough draft for the Indian food book introduction, so that tomorrow, I can meet with my partner/author-in-crime and get the project moving forward, at least into second gear. At the moment, we seem stuck in the traffic.