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Indian food

  • Lamb Shanks Rogan Josh with Ajwain Pancakes

    Lamb Shanks Rogan Josh with Ajwain Pancakes

    Sometimes you need a weekend cooking project. When you’ve already beaten Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (#humblebrag), you’ve marathoned all of The Gilded Age, and you finally finished reading The Bee Sting, you want to busy yourself in the kitchen. Well here’s a project for you: Lamb Shanks Rogan Josh from Daniel Boulud’s…

  • The Most Disgusting, Inedible Dinner I’ve Ever Cooked

    The Most Disgusting, Inedible Dinner I’ve Ever Cooked

    We all mistakes in the kitchen, even those of us who’ve been cooking ten years or longer. My mistakes are all documented here on the blog: The Pound Cake That Threw Up. The Fried Chicken That Wasn’t Crispy. The Blueberry Disaster. In all of these cases, the food was salvageable. The pound cake went back…

  • Mystical, Magical Curry Leaves

    Mystical, Magical Curry Leaves

    The other day I was in Atwater Village driving past a large Indian grocery store called India Sweets and Spices. I decided to do a very sensible thing: I parked my car and went inside. In the front, there’s an actual restaurant where you get food from a counter and the food looked pretty good.…

  • One-Eared Stag & Cardamom Hill

    One-Eared Stag & Cardamom Hill

    I’m writing to you now from Emory Village, a flash from the past, as I prepare to speak to Emory Students at 2 PM, sign books at the Emory Book Store at 4 PM and then hustle over to Empire State South where I’m hosting a dinner at 6:15. There are still seats available, so,…