The very first recipe I learnt from my mother was the foundation of all Gujarati meals: the humble yet hard-to-perfect roti. Or as we…
When I was a girl, the full moon known as Sharad Purnima, marking the end of the monsoon, was a special occasion among a…
Having lived in Tamil Nadu my whole life, the traditional local cuisine has always been a part of me. Millets were a staple in…
What does summer look and feel like in your city? Here in Chennai, temperatures have been crossing 40 °C (104 °F) – and we’re…
The dessert du jour is the chia seed pudding – fuss-free, and usually requiring very few ingredients. If you’re like me, you’d have gotten…
Do you ever have that feeling, returning from travels or even just from a demanding day, that you simply must bake something that makes…
What is the most descriptive collective noun for coconuts? A cluster? A clump? A crowd? None of them quite sufficed for the copious numbers…
When most people hear the word “burger”, they think of an oily, low-nutrition meal full of sauces and heavy meat, polished off with unhealthy…
With the monsoon, the sick season begins. The kids (and all the adults whom illness reduces to behaving like kids!) catch the flu. Coughs,…