India
Gajar halwa is the best Indian dessert and I will fight you on this
Three days before we arrive, I Whatsapp my aunty that I want her to show me how to make gajar halwa. I text her this before every India trip—not because I've forgotten how to make it, but because making it transports me to another world where I feel as luxurious as the royalty from which it came.
India, Part 1: Red carrots, purple rotis, and hoping he likes it all
💡Eating our way through North India and connecting to the past. I'm back! I know I'd promised y'all lots of content during my month-long India trip—sorry. While I had big plans of doing all that, once I got there, I just wanted to
Decoding culture through Harrods, whiskey, and hand creams
💡AKA: How to buy gifts and overcome colonisation. When you live abroad and visit family in India, and when that family is not in society's upper echelon so they can't often travel, you must bring gifts. These aren't gifts borne from a creative brainstorm