It’s going to be a bad summer in Delhi, long and very hot. I can feel it.

The leaves are dropping from the trees in huge clumps, a sign that they hunkering down for months of heat, dust and a great dry. Our brief, beautiful spring has been invaded by summer’s advance guard of charging temperatures. Read more

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A handed-down recipe, its details forgotten, leads to a fragrant weekend of porkie powder

Whole spices are little voyages of discovery. Where they lead you depends on the course you chart for them.
You can fry, roast, grind. You can use them whole. You can do a combination of these. Read more
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Your culinary juices may not depend on new equipment, but a new gizmo sometimes sparks fresh creativity.

For someone who cooks a reasonable amount and treasures his kitchen, I am notorious for using aging, blackening utensils. I may spend inordinately long periods in kitchen stores admiring the latest Teflon-coated wonder pan or the Italian passion-fruit juicer, but I don’t actually buy anything. Read more

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