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The best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Ever.
Is it hubris to call these the best oatmeal cookies ever? I’m taking a page straight out of the books of two women whose blogs I read and whose verve and style I greatly admire: Ree Drummond (aka The...
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Eating & Belonging: A Conversation
Happy to introduce Pâticheri’s next experiment–not with strange ingredients but with strange methods: a cross-blog conversation with friend and fellow blogger, food enthusiast, and...
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Of Voyages and Venus (Mocha Rum Walnut) Cake
A few days before the 2012 Transit of Venus, the second of only two such passages of Venus across the face of the sun that the 21st century would witness, I baked and assembled this cake. The Venus...
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A Cookie Story: Ragi Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Redux
Remember my post on the Best Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever? If you don’t, here it is, again. Can’t miss it three times in a row, can you? Well, a few things have happened since that post went...
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That which we call a Roselle
It's roselle season in Pondicherry. The beautiful little roselle is neither flower nor fruit, but the calyx of a wild hibiscus: the Hibiscus sabdariffa. Its origins trace back to North Africa and...
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The Perfect Avocado
It all began with the perfect avocado. One for each hand, plucked from a tree on a school biology walk one fresh-from-rain Pondicherry morning, by a boy who wanted to bring them home to his mother. His...
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GI Jasmine — Infusion and Cocktail
Breath for fragrance, who needs flowers? With peace, patience, forgiving and self-command, who needs the Ultimate Posture? The whole world become oneself who needs solitude, O lord white as jasmine....
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A Fisherman Story
It’s one of those bottle-able mornings in Pondicherry. Quiet, breezy, and until the sun returns to his glowering ways, perfectly, wonderfully cool. A lovely day to make some new friends. We live amidst...
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Get Cashew Cracking
Meet Krishnaveni. She is 75 years old, has no children of her own, and has outlived her husband and all her siblings. She lives in a village near Auroville, and spends many days in the houses of...
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Coconut-filled Sago Balls [Javvarisi urundai]
Malar-akka is my neighbor. She moves in across the street from us two years ago, with her grown daughters Indu and Subbu, after the government allocates a home for her in the newly constructed...
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The Pondicherry Fling Cocktail
Make no mistake, this is a story of a most passionate love affair–but not the sort you’d expect. It’s a love story of a woman and a place and all the things in the place she finds, and of earthy...
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Coming of age in Pondicheri
I have been composing this post in my mind for as long as I can remember, finally prompted by the 2011 opening of a stylishly industrial new Indian restaurant in the upper Kirby district of Houston to...
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The best oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. Ever.
Is it hubris to call these the best oatmeal cookies ever? I’m taking a page straight out of the books of two women whose blogs I read and whose verve and style I greatly admire: Ree Drummond (aka The...
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