Many Lives of the Onion Flower
A market find opens up a cross-regional conversation on onion flower stalks and the many ways they’re cooked across home kitchens in India.
LFC Kitchen
Don’t Toss the Pod
A kitchen experiment with pea peels sparks an exchange on how far curiosity can take you with what’s usually thrown away.
The Perfect Kadhi
"My attempts to recreate my Ma's version have failed terribly."
What’s your cooking style like?
"My mother works like a mad scientist, aggravating me in the kitchen even when she has taught me to be methodical and slow."
“She would have been so thrilled to see her work appreciated so many years after she wrote the cookbooks”
"I make her dhansakh masala regularly. And have made so many other recipes. A must-have cookbook"
Abandoned Rail Tracks and Knives With a Full Tang
"These are made from steel that comes from abandoned railway tracks from the British era, which is why the quality is solid. This is what I was told in Kutch."
One Drumstick, Many Ways to Cook it
"A friend from Ooty had once brought me a drumstick clear soup."