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Iconic Eats: India
Samosas Fried or baked, triangular or conical, samosas are perhaps India’s most ubiquitous snack. Sold by street vendors and fine-dining restaurants alike, the pastry is typically filled with spiced...
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Acquired Taste
EnlargeCredit: Ingalls Photography My prandial pickiness merits its own chapter in our family lore. Growing up, the list of items I eschewed—nuts, lamb, seafood—far surpassed those I ate. The most...
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Cape Town Classic
EnlargeCredit: Laura Sant On a blistering summer day, one milkshake puts all the others in the world to shame: the fresh avocado and mint shake at the Royale Eatery, a burger and shake shop on Long...
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The School of Small Bites
EnlargeCredit: Kelly Campbell Wherever my 80-year-old father, Amartya Sen, travels in India, a scrum of students encircle him, eager to shake his hand. As popular as a Bollywood star or pop singer, he...
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Holy Cow
EnlargeCredit: James Roper Cows in India live pampered lives. They idle in grassy fields and amble across urban roadways without a care. Their quality of life is a product of their sacredness. For at...
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The Last Tappers
EnlargeCredit: James Oseland I remember that rainy evening 17 years ago. Crickets pierced the wet air with their shrill harmony, as my mother struggled to bring to life her smoky stone stove, blowing...
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Feeding Mumbai
EnlargeCredit: James Roper In the middle of the night, when the sky is pitch black and the rest of Mumbai is fast asleep, the wholesale produce market in the neighborhood of Byculla is a hive of...
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The Love of Tea
EnlargeCredit: James Roper Wherever you are in India, you're never far from a tea vendor peddling chai, a sweet, milky tea, from trays of steaming glasses. India is the top consumer of tea on the...
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The Heart of South India
EnlargeCredit: Penny de los Santos I am in Rajahmundry, a town on the banks of the mighty Godavari River, as part of a slow, delicious journey to explore the many, varying cuisines of Andhra Pradesh. I...
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Required Eating
EnlargeCredit: Ingalls Photography“I don't like fish so much,” my grandmother used to murmur at lunch, as her slender turmeric-stained fingers reached into a small brass bowl for a piece of...
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Fire in the Desert
EnlargeCredit: Jim Urqhart/ ReutersBurning Urge Every summer, tens of thousands of “burners” descend on the Black Rock Desert, toting survival supplies for the weeklong performance-art fantasia called...
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Persian Roots
EnlargeCredit: James Roper When I was growing up in Mumbai, Sunday lunch with my family was always dhansak: caramelized rice walled in by mutton kebabs and drowned in a dal cooked with green chiles and...
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Heavenly Meal
EnlargeCredit: James Roper The Hindu deity Lord Jagannath, creator of the universe, is worshipped all over India, but with particular intensity in Puri, Odisha, where Jagannath Temple is located. On...
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Lovely Lassis
EnlargeCredit: James Roper Traveling in India as spring was lapsing into torpid summer, I was grateful to find creamy chilled lassis everywhere to sip in the heat. On city streets and in village shops,...
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Good and Plenty
EnlargeCredit: James Roper Across India, an assortment of produce is common to kitchens. (1) Coconut is integral in coastal regions, used in sliced, grated, and liquid forms, while (2) green, unripe...
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Amid the Flock
EnlargeCredit: James Fisher Harvest season had begun in Rajasthan. Mustard, chickpeas, and okra were ripening in fields beside the Aravalli mountains. Bullock carts trundled wheat sheaves to a...
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Pongal: The Year’s Sweetest Taste
EnlargeCredit: Kelly Campbell So much has changed in Molasur. I used to drive past this isolated agricultural hamlet in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu on my way home to the nearby town of...
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The Rewards of the Road
EnlargeCredit: Ariana Lindquist We are hot, tired, and hungry when we spot a dhaba, one of the ubiquitous truck-stop eateries found along India’s highways, at half past noon. I have been navigating...
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Mango: King of Fruits
EnlargeCredit: James Roper Each summer, mango season brings India to its knees. It's a time when everyone comes together to celebrate the fragrant, yellow-fleshed fruit. People eat it for breakfast,...
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Acquired Taste
EnlargeCredit: Ingalls Photography My prandial pickiness merits its own chapter in our family lore. Growing up, the list of items I eschewed—nuts, lamb, seafood—far surpassed those I ate. The most...
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