Last August under the hot Colorado sun I learned how to make homemade parathas from my Anglo-Indian boyfriend’s mother, an expert at this age-old Indian flatbread. She gave us a quick course on authentic paratha making 101 at our campsite in the gorgeous mountains outside Telluride. This was six months after I visited Karnataka and Bangalore …
I just wanted to be nice to the old lady. Call it senior citizen day, call it Happy Old Bitch Day, I honestly don’t care what you call it but I thought I would be a sweet heart and take the old lady for a swim at Lake Powell. It was 106 degrees at 7 in …