Do you remember walking out of school with your friends and walking straight to the “uncle” standing a few feet away with a cartful of ber, fresh green sprigs of plump saunf sticking up from a tall aluminum container, glistening starfruit, lovely dull brown tubes of imli, green guavas and large raw mangoes all waiting to be scooped up? The end of the school day …
Sugar is so polarising. And yet it’s present in natural and added forms in most food. Fruits have naturally occurring sugars in varying degrees depending on the fruit and every food preparation will have some element that contains sugar and so it is near impossible to cut it out of your diet. There are so many alternatives and substitutes for white sugar ranging from stevia …
Chai is a love language – at least in India. Chai with friends at a tapri, with work colleagues in the office canteen, with bae in bed, with your mum (spilling tea of course IYKYK), with dad bas yun hi, with siblings after arguing over who’s going to make said chai and of course sipping it early in the morning enjoying some alone time. Simple, …
The word dessert makes your mind wander to a luscious and glistening bowl of moong dal halwa, or a cool matki of phirni, or some warm malpuas. While those images linger on, are you counting the calories that go along with them? Or wondering if you could opt for something less extravagant to tackle that craving for a bit of sweet? The term ‘healthy dessert’ …
