Shree Mirji’s Hookosu Dindu Chutney Cauliflower stem chutney Discarded fruit and vegetable offcuts contribute significantly to food waste, and a recipe that offers a creative way to use them is definitely a keeper. Serves 4 1 medium head cauliflower 1 gooseberry-sized ball of tamarind, soaked in ¼ cup of hot water for 15 mins 1 tsp vegetable oil ¼ tsp …
I speak to Archana Pidathala about her new book Why Cook on the eve of her son’s birthday. This book is a chronicle of life stories and recipes I captured over the course of that journey.’ Archana started cooking only in her late 20s after becoming the ‘unlikely custodian of her amama’s recipes’, and her first cookbook, Five Morsels of …
When at last a copy of Archana Pidathala’s new Why Cook came to my hands, I found myself suspended in a long, unexpected pause. Collectively, they represent a generational shift: not the “midnight’s children” of barely-post-Independence years, but the ones after, those whose parents already straddled worlds so their children could be less bound by social stricture and much freer …
