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Love as Cake
This chocolate cake with mango-white chocolate frosting and cherry-rose compote is inspired by monsoon fruit, 90s nostalgia, and a love song that felt too good to be true.
Karonda and Green Chilli Pickle
This sharp and vibrant pickle aptly captures the fleeting flavours of early monsoon.
Ras Waali Bhindi
Rooted in seasonal, home-style cooking, this dish from Bihar highlights bhindi that is simmered in mustard oil and spices.
One Must Listen to the Sound of Sun-Dried Chillies
How to eat more attentively in an increasingly warming world.
Pumpkin Flower Fritter Salad
This seasonal salad reimagines pumpkin flower fritters along with cooling vegetables and a sharp mustard-curd dressing.
Borishal Chingri Pithe
Passed down from her grandmother, for Priyanjali, this Chingri Macher Pithe carries the smoky, delicate flavours of Borishal. It is a dish that is reminiscent of a land she has never been to, but feels intimately connected to.
Old Delhi’s Flaky Ramadan Treat
A flaky, golden-brown Sehri treat from Old Delhi’s Gali Kababian, the Khajla makes a fleeting appearance every year during the holy month of Ramadan.
Bommi’s Crab Pepper Fry
Seasoned by the Sea is a coastal community cookbook published by Uyir Pathipagam (2025). Bommi’s family is widely known as crab-sellers in the Thazhankuppam region of Tamil Nadu. Her crab dish, involving simple ingredients and techniques, highlights the flavours of fresh crab.