Delhi: Old City Eats and New Foodie Breakthroughs.
I’d been whining about not having the time to experience any food breakthroughs on this trip to India. My whines
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When you shop till you drop, then a Pani Puri you must pop.
The past week really hasn’t had any food breakthroughs for me. I haven’t hunted out any hidden shacks. I haven’t
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A Restaurant Called Eric’s.
If someone told me about a restaurant called Eric’s, I’d expect to be walking into a joint that served American
Fresh-baked Punjabi Kulchas remind me why I love bread so much.
I can’t believe it’s been so long since I’ve written about bread or roti or buns of some sort. I’m
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What to sneak over to the son-in-law that married your vegetarian daughter?
This cocoon of chickeny goodness. An egg and chicken kathi roll from Shiraz. And I speak from experience. Second hand-experience.
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THE KHAKHRA.
I tried all sorts of titles to this post…historical ones, descriptively tempting ones, funny (-to-me-but-lame-to-all-else) ones, and then I realized
Usually I’m the joker. But Karim’s in Delhi made me a queen.
I was a wretched mess after my last trip to Delhi. And the trip before that one too. The best
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I’ve been spoilt rotten by Mom’s Hyderabadi Biryani.
I just refuse to eat biryani anywhere else but home. On the rare occasion that I do, the rice will
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Aappa Kadai hits the spot. Many spots. Every spot.
Sometimes I think I’ve grown up in Dubai with my eyes closed. Or my mouth closed. Or some combination of
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Art, Food, and Life in Delhi.
Driving down the streets of Delhi on the last night of my trip, I commented: You know Meeta aunty, there’s
What do you do when you’ve grown too many tomatoes in your backyard?
There’s no way a wonderful problem like that would ever be my own doing. I have a black thumb, if
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The little white knight that helped me peel the potatoes last Friday
I know children love playing around with dough, or licking bowls streaked with chocolate cake batter [points at self vigorously],
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