At the age of five, Julie Sahni began attending a school run by Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement, in the North Indian city of Kanpur. Classes there trained her to be a perfect housewife. Born in ...

Mahira Rivers is a food writer and restaurant critic based in New York City where she writes, primarily, about chefs and restaurant culture. Mahira was previously an anonymous inspector for the ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. Madhur Jaffrey initially became a cookbook author, she writes in the first line of An Invitation to Indian Cooking, “as a gradual maneuver in ...

This time last year, chef Rasika Venkatesa was experiencing burnout. Not surprising as the chef hit the ground running when ...

What makes Indian food authentic? Chef Siddharth Parab explains how regional traditions, cooking techniques and innovation ...

For years, Indian food in Los Angeles meant just a few main dishes: chicken tikka masala, samosas, and a generic curry with a protein of choice. But in recent years, Chirag Shah — CEO of Tulsi Indian ...

A few weeks ago, I reached out to my mother — a phenomenal Indian home cook — with the hopes that she would pass down her wisdom to me this Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. You can ...

Raghavan Iyer, whose books and spirited teaching spread the cuisine, is using his last days to get familiar comfort foods to patients like himself. As the end of his life nears, Raghavan Iyer is ...