1n The #FrugalIndian Sunday Lunch: Luxuriant grains of aged Bazmaati, steamed over braised wild spatchcock, in the style of the Nabobs of Old Delhi “a la achaari”, redolent with fragrance of pickled green Zimbabwean pimentos. Image
2n delightful globules of golden fried, spiced, chickpea flour bathed like Cleopatra in a bagna frigida of fresh first milk yoghurt, delicately seasoned with salé-Nero & toasted wild Patagonian cumin Image
3n an assembled salad of exotic East Asian greens, served with crunchy tangy pickled carrots, with toasted Hokkaido winter peanuts over a base of cold glassy vermicelli, drenched in a citrus - caramel - chilli dressing Image
4/4 Fluffy fresh oryza served over a kumera stew from the Indonesian archipelago, delicately spiced with Lombok pepperoncini, and the rich milk of the rare cocos-nucifera fruit, picked by the head-hunting virgins of high Papuan mountain tribes on a moonlit night. Image

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1n Turns out AltNews lost its @factchecknet certification sometime in 2019 & have been subtly misrepresenting their affiliation. Kanchan Kaur, the local IFCN checker has submitted her approval of AltNews’ renewal papers in April 2019. It went nowhere after that. Why? Image
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