So I have to admit something right off the bat. Until very recently, the past couple of months actually, I thought that poppy seed were little black seeds only – like the kind you find in poppy seed muffins or bagels. And I was always a bit confused because whenever I ate Aloo Posto, loosely…
When I first met my husband, Arjun back in 2000 he would regale me with stories of foods he grew up eating, many with a heavy seafood emphasis, all of which sounded terribly exotic to me. My exposure to seafood up until college had been fairly limited and even 15 years ago I was still…
During my childhood, aloo gobi was on the regular dinner vegetable rotation. If we didn’t eat it once a week, we certainly ate it once a fortnight. And I have always loved it. In a cuisine where vegetables are gussied up with a kaleidoscope of spices, it can be quite refreshing to eat a dish…
Arjun and I have been married for almost eleven years. And for the majority of that time I have been on the hunt for a good cookbook that features recipes from West Bengal – the Indian state from which Arjun and his family hail. And along the way Arjun and I have bought a few…