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Dinacharya When the Day Starts at Night
The phrase daily routine can conjure up a quiet dawn that many households have never had. A nurse finishing a night shift and a parent getting children to school…
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Ritucharya and the First Monsoon Market
The first sign of a new season in a kitchen may be a change on the vegetable cart. A familiar green disappears; another arrives in bundles too large for…
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Six Tastes at a Gujarati Table
Taste a spoonful of dal before and after adding lemon. The second spoonful offers a small lesson in rasa: a dish need not belong to just one taste. Ayurvedic…
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Khichdi Is a Family of Dishes
Ask three people what khichdi looks like when it is ready. One may describe grains that still hold their shape, another a soft mixture that slips from a spoon.…
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Ghee: Three Different Things a Recipe Might Mean
A spoonful of ghee on hot rotli has a visible job: it melts, spreads and carries an aroma. In another passage, ghee may be the base of a prepared…
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Ginger in Two Jars: Adu and Sunth
Fresh ginger bends the conversation towards texture. Snap a piece and you can see fibres; grate it and juice wets the board. Dried ginger powder leaves an entirely different…
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Turmeric Between the Wedding Bowl and the Spice Tin
The yellow on a wedding cloth and the yellow in a pot of dal may come from the same familiar spice. Yet a photograph of a haldi ceremony is…
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A Tulsi Plant Has More Than One Biography
A household tulsi may have arrived as a cutting from a neighbour rather than as a purchase. One person remembers watering it before school; another remembers the courtyard where…
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