Southern Tadka: A Kodi Vepudu Recipe
We have a habit of collecting recipes from the places we visit. On a long visit to Kodaikanal, a hill town in the state of Tamil Nadu, we came back with the lingering taste of…
Peaches, Plums & Poetry
We’ve been busy. The season has been about whipping up peach cobblers and crumbles; using the spoonfuls of crispy-sweet-sour-tarty goodness to offset the pall of the monsoon. Plum jam has been made, folded into a…
Mango, Pista, Malai
The dessert is getting quirkier. In the growing universe of gelatos, vegan, low-sugar/no-sugar, artisanal ice creams, the syllables are adding up. You have everything from black sesame and honeycomb, blue cheese, lavender, basil to the…
Breadcrumbs
The world begins at a kitchen table. No matter what, we must eat to live… …It is a place to hide in the shadow of terror. A place to celebrate the terrible victory… Coming across…
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Red velvet
After six days of trekking in the Kanchenjunga National Park, we returned to Yuksam with leaden feet and plenty of food cravings. A sleepy little village in West Sikkim, it’s the base for Dzongri and Goechala…
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Say cheese
It had almost become my morning ritual. I would walk up the stairs at Daragaon village retreat to see if the Kanchenjunga—the world’s third-highest peak—had dropped its misty cloak. Seeing the clouds intact, I would…
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Recipe Corner
From the Coast: A Prawn and Mango Curry Recipe
When you are born in a coastal town, seasons revolve around fish. Summers may invoke mango fervour, but it’s also the season when the curry powders and masalas are made, dried fish cleaned and stocked…
Sweet Nibbles
When the pandemic nudged so many of us back into the kitchen, it also made us turn to old comfort recipes. Ones that had been forgotten, or replaced with easier alternatives, including packaged food. The…
Hot Take: Sriracha, Climate Change and Comfort Food
On days when climate anxiety is running high, I hold on tight to my coffee mug. I wonder what days without coffee and chocolate would be like, immediately check my privilege and go down a…
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