Spicy Rasam

Not a cooking or food blog! I just share what's cooking in my mind.

I have a friend of 25 years who cannot get out of the house without using “fair and lovely” or as they call it now “glow and lovely”. She’s been using it for more than 20 years now. I remember her being very insecure because she was “dark” (still can’t understand what this means). She’s …

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In early 2000s there was a delicacy that I loved. It was sweet corn. It was corn but sweeter. I remember asking specifically for it when buying roasted corn (Butta! For Indians 😊). There was roasted corn seller near the vegetable shop in my locality. Winters were a busy time for him. My mom and …

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