Coriander green pea ‘mixed’ millet with vegetable raita

November 2019 | Chitra Every year during the first week of August, a special festival called ‘Aadi Perukku’ is celebrated in South India. Around this time the rivers are refreshed by rainfall and this celebration is to pay tribute to water’s life-sustaining properties. This festival has a special significance for me as it was on this day…

Vegan Florence

November 2019 | Neeru Ravi Florence was simply put a vegan heaven. I turned up thinking I’d be blown away by the world renowned Renaissance paintings and beautiful architecture, but I came away amazed at the incredible variety of authentic vegan cuisine we found. There were several fully vegan places but menus of traditional restaurants…

Spicy carrot soup

November 2019 | Chitra Soups were never really part of our traditional South Indian diet whilst growing up. We rarely ate out, and even when we did, we stuck to familiar foods. My father encountered soup during his stays at hotels whilst travelling for work, and was all praise, but we never really knew how…