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1 week ago |
livemint.com | Samar Halarnkar
Lounge Summary The dichotomy of modern eating allows one to adapt and improvise in the kitchen This is a Mint Premium article gifted to you. Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Last month in Mumbai, I met a Brahmin taxi driver from Uttar Pradesh. Within five minutes of getting into his car, he asked where I was from. When I said Goa, he peered in the rear-view mirror. “Christian?" No, Hindu, I said.
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2 months ago |
livemint.com | Samar Halarnkar
I did not think I could write another column on a Goan fish curry. I have often waxed eloquent about my ajji’s (grandmother’s) fish curry, my shortcut version, my mother’s version, the original version—to name a few. The beauty of the basic Goan fish curry is that there are as many versions as your imagination.
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2 months ago |
htsyndication.com | Samar Halarnkar
New Delhi, April 12 -- I did not think I could write another column on a Goan fish curry. I have often waxed eloquent about my ajji's (grandmother's) fish curry, my shortcut version, my mother's version, the original version-to name a few. The beauty of the basic Goan fish curry is that there are as many versions as your imagination.
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Mar 22, 2025 |
livemint.com | Samar Halarnkar
Yuzuki skirts the borders of food and sex. There is little that is explicit, but there is little doubt of the connection, delivered through detail and deliciousness. The premise: Manako Kajii, a somewhat plump and plain imprisoned serial killer, appears to seduce—through rich food and domesticity—lonely businessmen and feed them to death. She cannot, she says, tolerate two things: feminists and margarine. When it’s been available, I have used margarine, but after reading Butter I will not.
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Mar 22, 2025 |
htsyndication.com | Samar Halarnkar
New Delhi, March 22 -- "Cloaked in their mantle of amber butter, the grains shimmied and danced before her eyes. There was a sizzle as the chef poured on some soy sauce, and then the short, spirited tango was over."I do not usually read fiction unless it concerns starships headed to deep space and devious plots to destroy the world.
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