Unpolished Rice: A Sweet Story of Mother’s Love & Respect For Our Roots
Last weekend I had the world's best rice kheer. I know, I know, you would say, Kheer main kya best? It can always be made well by any half decent cook. And I agree with that. But the defining ...
Keep Your Energy Levels Up While Fasting This Shravan
Black Raisins: The Magical Pellets of Nutrition Hindus consider the month of Sawan or Shravan as an auspicious time, and pray to Lord Shiva to save and protect his followers from all dangers, just ...
Memories of Shravan and Childhood
As the monsoon showers burst upon us, it takes me back to the fun I had as a child. While the fun was different at different stages of life, each went on to create ever lasting memories in my mind....
Tips For a Healthy Monsoon Season
Enjoy the magic of monsoon, but don’t forget to take care of your immunity.While the rains come with their own share of fun, beautiful greenery, misty mornings and lovely memories of splashing in t...
5 Traditional Home Made Foods You Can Get Delivered To Your Door
Food sustains us, but it is also the strongest cultural bond known to mankind. From cavemen and women, to explorers traveling to new regions and territories, people bonded around the campfire and t...
Sweet Memories & Unique Flavours: Every Chutney Has a Story!
My love affair with chutney goes far back into my childhood. My brother and I would spend our long, languid summer holidays at our Aazol with our grandparents. With endless chikkis and chaklis to m...
6 Super Foods of Maharashtra That Boost Your Health
Health is wealth, they say. And nothing brought this maxim more alive than the last two years of the pandemic when all of us realized that it was only our immunity built over several years that hel...
Making Low-Calorie Sabudana Vadas
All of the pleasure, none of the guilt We used to have a house help, whose forte was making Maharashtrian snacks for breakfast. Of which Sabudana Khichdi (henceforth referred to as SK), was my fav...
Stock Up Your Kitchen With These 5 Traditional Spices
When we were kids, my sister and I spent our summer holidays at our grandparents’ home in a small village called Dehene. We’d spend the mornings watching farmers work in their fields while we sippe...
A Soul Satisfying Malvani Fish Thali
The best malvani cuisine I have eaten in Mumbai! Malvan, is a scenic town in the Sindhudurg district on the west coast of Maharashtra. While most of us have never visited the place and possibly kno...
The History Behind Mumbai's Popular Meal- Vada Pav!
Mumbai, the city of dreams is known for its skyline, for the sea, for being the business capital of India, and most of all for its survival meal- Vada Pav. It is not just a culinary delight that ha...
Celebrating Navroze With a Healthy Spin To Ravo
Today, like on March 21 every year, 300 million people across the world, including Afghans, Kerds and Persians along with India’s tiny Zoroastrian community will celebrate Nowruz (Navroze in India)...
How Vada Pav Helped Us Deal With Being Empty-Nesters
The deliciousness of a freshly made vada pav and the accompanying hot garlic chutney! A young lady walked up to me at an HR conference once and shared the heartburn she face...
Liquid Jaggery (Kaakvi): The Best Sugar Alternative For Your Health
Most of us have never heard of kaakvi and have no idea what it is. It is testimony to an increased dependence on western thought and ethos that we are slowly but surely losing touch with our roots,...
Recipe - Making Parsi Classic Saas Ni Macchi With Kaakvi
At a Parsi wedding, the guests are hypothetically split down the centre. Much like Indians were thanks to their allegiance to Sachin Tendulkar or Saurav Ganguly in the early 2000s. The wedding gues...
Benefits of Eating Traditional Local Food
Why is eating local food good for you and for the planet? There many benefits of eating locally sourced and locally grown food. In recent times there have been a flurry of discussions around the se...
Why Indrayani Rice Should Be On Your Grocery List?
India has for far too long been enamoured by Basmati. But local rice varieties are now saying apna time aa gaya. Storehouse of vitamin Unpolished Indrayani rice is blessed with Vitamin B1 or Thiami...
I met Suvarna when we went on a fact or should I say food finding mission while searching for the best regional produce of Maharashtra for Aazol.
Learning To Use Souring Foods of Maharashtra's Kitchens
Mango, tomato and curd may be go-to ingredients for the rest of India to add a tang to their meals, but the Marathi pantry has novel
Makar Sakranti: Maharashtra’s Favourite Festival
As soon as New Year festivities had ended, we children would all start looking forward to January 14th
Strap: Less is more. This 10-ingredient simple fish rassa is one of the most flavourful seafood meals you'll serve to family
Exploring Maharashtrian Cuisine Beyond The Famed Vada Pav
Inevitably there was somewhat of a culture shock when as a North Indian, I married into a Maharashtrian family.