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Getting Recipes Written Down

18 January 2012

One day, not too long ago, I got to spend the morning and afternoon with my Baba, making pounchki. She hadn’t made them in a number of years, but when I asked if we could make some, she was only too happy to oblige. Food can ingrain some very detailed memories, and pounchki do that [...]

Vanilla Ice Cream’s Older Sister

13 May 2011

This is not just a vanilla ice cream. The freckling of real vanilla suggests a familial relation between vanilla ice cream and this ice cream, but this one is far more grown up than her little sister. Vanilla ice cream would peak into this older sister’s make up drawer, mystified by the distance a few [...]