I was in my second year of university, living in an apartment off-campus, when I realized, much to my dismay, that my mother was right: I missed her dal-roti-sabzi. When that first craving hit, I went ...

At the age of five, Julie Sahni began attending a school run by Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement, in the North Indian city of Kanpur. Classes there trained her to be a perfect housewife. Born in ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. Madhur Jaffrey initially became a cookbook author, she writes in the first line of An Invitation to Indian Cooking, “as a gradual maneuver in ...

This story originally published on Saveur. Indian food is my everyday food. Dal, rice, and sabzi are the staples my mom used to make for our family when she came home from busy days at work and had to ...

This post has been updated to include Urvashi Pitre’s recipe for Instant Pot butter chicken. Last spring, Urvashi Pitre, a Dallas-based food blogger raised in Pune, India, posted a recipe for butter ...