The instructions for cooking this pickle come from women who never knew recipes as we know them: detailed, involving descriptions, weights, measures and cooking times…
It was a conversation with a friend’s octogenarian mother — a conversation that wandered back and forth, expanded and contracted over a couple of visits..
Writing about food has led to many unusual, enriching conversations, valuable friendships that I would never have made in the normal course of my life,..
Kodavathis of a generation or two before mine would have been surprised —if not disbelieving and mildly indignant —to see their favourite coconut toffee listed..
When someone you know, who is eighty years old-or thereabouts -remembers their grandmother making the most perfect mulberry jam, in Madikeri, it’s a good guess..
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