explores identity, authenticity & appropriation using pens, food, music, reexamined traditions and a combination thereof.
Eats: Lots of Christmas Cookies, but with Indian Twists & treats inspired from the year’s travels Tunes: Our Christmas Cookie & Cocktail Party Playlist (with some missing, like Wynton Marsalis’ incredible version of Rudolph) Chatter: Your top 5 Favorite Holiday Traditions Fun:
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Recently a friend told me about a pre-cooking ritual her mom performed, in order to ensure a positive state of mind, lest the negative emotions make their way into her food This was an entirely new concept and it grabbed me, and
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This Mother’s and Father’s day, bolstered by a podcast and an NY Times piece, we gained the confidence to break cultural norms and borrow from a tradition outside our respective/collective cultures in order to remember an unborn child, lost in pregnancy. In
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This list, along with the list of children’s books, is part of the virtual travel series, and also provides a nice slice of culture in terms of how they dig back into Mexican roots while also staying present and thoughtfully addressing
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This list, along with the list of adult books, is part of the slice of Mexican culture our friends provided us when we were getting excited for our trip to Mexico. It’s compiled by our friend M, who is the mom of
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Better late than never! Our annual Candy Cane Kulfi was delayed for several reasons (no the least of which was that the first batch fall victim to a failed freezer), but we persevered and made a second scrumptious batch. If you have
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