So my first attempt at limbu achaar hasn’t gone well. I followed my mother-in-law’s directions to the letter, left the jar on the counter with the requisite amount of salt for more than four days and still, the lemon is hard. There is no gloopy chutney in the bottle, just salt and lemon in the same [...]
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My mother-in-law is kindly showing me how to cook many of her favourite recipes–recipes passed down by her own mother, who like my MIL, cook in the Bohra tradition. Considering that Bohras are originally from India, many of these [...]
I’ve been away doing research in the Maritimes for my book about local food in Canada (hence my absence from this blog and from my life in general–apologies to my friends for this disappearing act).
I was on the Hanz Shore, interviewing farmers, when I met a woman named Coleen, and her young son Allister, who grows [...]