Posts by bharat

Indian pickling is one of the oldest food traditions on the subcontinent, documented in ancient texts and passed down through family kitchens for thousands of years. The word achar...

Somewhere between the tadka sizzle in your grandmother's kitchen and the science of modern nutrition lies an ancient truth: the spices you cook with every day are doing far more th...

Most kitchens in India have all three of these garam masala, chole masala, and chaat masala  sitting somewhere in the spice cabinet. And most cooks have, at some point, used the wr...

“Every great Indian chaat, every authentic pickle masala, every spice mix powder worth its name has one secret ingredient in common. It is not a rare herb or an expensive import it...

Have you ever wondered why a jar of homemade achar tastes so different from anything you pick up off a supermarket shelf? That deep colour, that sharp tang, that warming spice that...