Kanchuki & I were laughing a few days about how people from Assam always carry tamul-paan (areca nut & betel leaves) where ever they go. They will take out their small filigreed metal cases of tamul & paan and delicately pull out a single leaf, wrap the tamul in it, place it in their mouths…
Roll over…
You would all agree that for people like us, memories that have anything to do with food are often more vivid than any other. That probably explains the length of this post. It wasn’t meant to be this long but the memories just kept getting sharper and more detailed as I went along and I…
A Poem: My Wife’s Cooking
(re-posting from my blog, http://appapappa.com/?p=278) My Wife's Cooking I come to the table preoccupied You serve me dal with rice, Simple to cook, done in a jiffy - 3/4th cup dal, 2 cups water, Turmeric, and a pinch of salt - Boil, boil, till it is done. Then the tadka, a splatter in hot oil Of…
One person’s comfort food…
A friend recently put up a post on FB (where else?) asking everyone about their comfort food… Now, comfort food in that string of comments was decribed as: “foods that make you go uuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... and make you tingle!!”; “things that remind one of childhood” and “lift-me-up foods”. So now you all have an idea of…
Icons
Every city has a few iconic places to eat – restaurant being too pretentious a term for some of them – that are part of the city’s social and cultural history. It is not only about the food they serve – which is usually fantastic – but about the ambience and quirks of the place.…
Foodnama 