When I was growing up, middle class culture in India was all about eating what was cooked at home. Fresh food was prepared for…
Festivals are a big part of Indian culture and making a sweet (or many!) at home during special occasions is almost mandatory. Growing up,…
I was visiting my sister in Mumbai through the fasting week of Paryushan, the most important time of the Jain calendar. Over the course…
Every day in a Gujarati household, you can be assured that there will be a big bowl of dal on the dining table at…
It was Raksha Bandhan a few days ago, and my home was reverberating with boisterous laughter and shouting, filled with the joy and commotion…
When my sister sent me a huge batch of peaches, brought down from the hills of Himachal Pradesh to the markets of Mumbai and…
Nature knows how to keep the balance. For example, during the mango season, when we enjoy and relish the sugary sweetness of the fruit,…
Every day, I wake up thinking: “What shall I bake today?” My work schedule begins with this question. By the time I walk into…
In my recent recipe for a barley lime drink, I mentioned how my sister and I were anaemic while growing up, and how we…