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Ep 16, 17: Aug 2018: The Saffron Tales by Yasmin Khan
link:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/iranian-desserts-to-capture-your-heart/ Pune folk cooked up a feast on August...
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Meha Desai
- Apr 6, 2019
- 2 min
Ep 18, 19: Sept 2018: Authentic Mexican by Rick and Deann Bayless
link: https://www.seriouseats.com/2017/10/the-food-lab-reading-list-authentic-mexican-rick-bayless.html I’ve had done teething trouble...
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Lavanya Khare
- Apr 5, 2019
- 2 min
Ep 10: April 2018: The Calcutta Cook Book by M. Dasgupta & J. Chaliha
If you're looking for the quintessential guide to traditional Bengali cuisine, then Penguin's The Calcutta Cookbook is not it. The...
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Meha Desai
- Apr 4, 2019
- 3 min
Ep 19, 20: Nov 2018: Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat, with illustrations by Wendy MacNaughton
In Pune, folk met early November at Ravi’s house. We also got our second mention in the press shortly after. In Hyderabad, we met the...
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Meha Desai
- Apr 1, 2019
- 1 min
Ep 14: June 2018: Paris Picnic Club by Shaheen Peerbhai, with illustrations by Jennie Levitt
Suraj was travelling that weekend for a quiz and Shub missed her flight to Bangalore. First flights out are a proven pain in the rear,...
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Sheena Dabholkar
- Mar 31, 2019
- 2 min
Ep 13: June 2018: Les Halles Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain
Original post: http://thisissheena.com/blog/cookbook-club-a-potluck-from-les-halles When I lived in Bombay, my friends and I regularly...
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Meha Desai
- Mar 29, 2019
- 1 min
Nadine Levy Redzepi: What do you cook for the world's best chef?
Here's an interesting piece I read in The Guardian about Downtime. And lots of recipes!! https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/se...
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Meha Desai
- Mar 29, 2019
- 2 min
Ep12: June 2018: Downtime: Deliciousness at Home by Nadine Levy Redzepi
Shuttling between Panjim and Pune and then Panjim and Hyderabad is tiring. I’ve been flying back most weekends because my husband has...
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Meha Desai
- Mar 22, 2019
- 2 min
Ep9: Feb 2018: Into the Vietnamese Kitchen by Andrea Nguyen
It was madness from the beginning and I should’ve known better. I was supposed to be the host and Poornima arrived on time but I just...
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Meha Desai
- Mar 17, 2019
- 5 min
Ep8: Jan 2018: Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi
Priyanka, who has attended a lot of our cookbook lunches and dinners had picked up Jerusalem on her way back from Georgia (the country) a...
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Meha Desai
- Mar 16, 2019
- 3 min
Ep7: The Complete Asian Cookbook - Sri Lanka and The Philippines by Charmaine Solomon
Another fun lunch, another set of interesting recipes. Since we've settled into a comfortable arrangement around how we organize our...
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Meha Desai
- Mar 15, 2019
- 4 min
Ep6: Nov 2017: Bread, Cake, Doughnut, Pudding by Justin Gellatly
I'd really badly wanted to cook from Kirsten Tibballs' Chocolate. But when I asked around, people seemed apprehensive because the recipes...
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Meha Desai
- Mar 9, 2019
- 3 min
Ep5: Sept 2017: Rice and Curry: Sri Lankan Home Cooking
I'm quite pleased with how we've evolved into a little group of people who meet every six weeks or so, with lots of food, beers and wine...
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Meha Desai
- Mar 8, 2019
- 5 min
Ep 4: Anthony Bourdain's Appetites - A Cookbook
I wrote to Neysa who runs the ever so pretty Instagram account @goodslice a couple of weeks ago, to ask her how she goes about organizing...
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Meha Desai
- Mar 3, 2019
- 5 min
Ep3 : Mango Mia
Well, it's mango season. Okay, nearly the end of it. So when Sahil suggested in April that we do a mango-themed potluck, it didn't seem...
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Meha Desai
- Mar 2, 2019
- 6 min
Ep2 : Chinese and Thai 400: Delicious Recipes for Healthy Living
Saturday evening, a handful of us got together for our second potluck dinner. The usual suspects and some new faces. The menu, when Sahil...
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Meha Desai
- Mar 1, 2019
- 3 min
Ep1 : The Suriani Kitchen
Ana Mathew, Sahil Khan (Instagram, Twitter), Suraj Menon (my husband) and I (Instagram, Twitter) met at our apartment on Saturday evening...
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