food
- culture
from this morning's journal entry on culture
- Some reflections on "Markets on the Periphery", aliveness, competition, and food popups
Some scattered reflections foreign street markets and their similarity to the food popup scene in my backyard.
- Ghosts of Bombay
Katherine shared an irksomely amusing observation with me recently. A number of people have corrected her when she uses the name Bombay instead of Mumbai. My suggestion to her was to respond to such feedback with, "Sorry but I know more than you." Of course, the reason she uses Bombay and not the temporally accurate Mumbai is because I do. We were having this conversation with our friend Shuba, another Detroiter from Bombay, while she was on a break during her Sunday shift at Coriander Kitchen
- Recipes | Ammumma's garam masala
My grandmother (ammumma)'s garam masala recipe
- Lost in translation (Punch)
On the origin of the word punch