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Step 1 Wash your hands, put on an apron and set out all your ingredients and equipment. Preheat the oven. Peek into the living room and see that…
As a little girl in India growing up in a Hindu household in the ’80s, I appreciated the beauty of Hindu symbolism; the ritual of lighting a lamp…
The spring equinox (also called the vernal equinox) starts today, March 20, and signals the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Days and nights become more…
It was one of those Dublin summer days that don’t make sense; the sun was hiding behind a dark grey cloud and the air felt muggy and oppressive….
Until very recently, if you attempted to commit suicide in India and survived, like I did, you would be met with the news that you could spend up…
“YOU. ARE. FAT.” The words – loaded like bullets into the sentence that was being directed at me – stung deeply. I was only ten years old, and…
February is National Bird Feeding Month! One of the first things I like to do when I move is set up my bird table for feeding birds. It’s…
It’s a brand new year, which means a number of things. New expectations, new resolutions, new color of the year, and, of course, new food trends. In 2017 we…
“He showed the words ‘chocolate cake’ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. ‘Guilt’ was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider…
Indian cooking can seem complicated and convoluted to people who aren’t inherently familiar with it; all that grinding of various spice pastes—a dash of this, a smidgen of…