Your mouth will water just listening to Madhur Jaffrey talk about the mangoes and peaches of her childhood. Her eyes glisten as she flips through one of her cookbooks featuring photos of India's ...

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 ...

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 ...

This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we bring you an icon of the community. Madhur Jaffrey first made Indian cuisine accessible to the West decades ago with her milestone cookbook, ...

From the vibrant crunch of chaat to the comforting sweetness of gulab jamun and the balanced flavors of Gujarati thalis, Indian cooking is a celebration of taste, texture, and tradition. But for ...

The oil used in cooking does more than just keep things from sticking to the pan. It adds flavour, depth, aroma, and often a nutritional boost to the meal. In Indian kitchens, there’s long-standing ...