I would just like to say, I simply adore traveling to India and all the sites, foods and smells that entails. Okay, maybe not all of the smells. I could do without the smells of that river over yonder that is also the town toilet, or that cow that just pooped in the middle of …
The first time I had tikka masala I was in London, twenty-five years old and a little scared of Indian food. After all the bullshit I had been fed back in California about how bland and God-awful English food was I wanted to run straight towards a familiar restaurant. Take me to the Olive Garden. …
In 2014 I tried to make homemade authentic Thai food for the first time. Now making authentic Thai Panang curry and heating up some Trader Joe’s pad that from the freezer section are two completely different things. For authentic Thai food, you have to hunt down ethnic ingredients like lemongrass, galangal root and kaffir lime …
Once upon a time, I thought that adding store-bought curry powder with a scoop of Greek yogurt to some chicken breasts made me a good Indian cook. I knew how to make a mango lassi in my nutri-bullet and I threw curried chicken breast in my salad all the time. This Indian cooking wasn’t so …
My first morning I woke up under overcast yet oh so humid skies in Bangalore India last December I had no clue that worldwide travel would soon be a thing of the past. I had absolutely no idea that the entire world would be shut down three months in the future. I so wished we …