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Nov 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Mixed flours, grated beet, spices, crushed peanuts made into a roti by pressing dough into a Kadai #breakfast
Lunch for less than $8
Lunch is served
I ate well today.
Dinner was a big plate of this ratatouille.

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My guest column for @HTBrunch on the true nature of sabudana and the nuance of nutrition which always comes from digging deeper - hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/brun…
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This ‘celebrity nutritionist’ is known for peddling all kinds of health damaging info, ex: eating every 2 hours (causes hyperinsulinemia, metabolic damage, ripe mangoes for diabetics (causes spike in blood sugar) and now the most ultra processed zero-nutrition food as superfood.
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This Valentine's Day, if you love someone, feed them less.
Resist the temptation to use sugary desserts or alcohol as a way to show love or to celebrate every milestone.
Resist the desi temptation to feed loved ones all the time. That tradition was relevant in times of caloric scarcity and the act of feeding someone was the purest expression of love.

Not so in our times of plenty.
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Nov 16, 2021
Today is Tulsi vivah, a festival with a very interesting backstory. I wrote about using Tulsi in our everyday cooking in my column in @Mint_Lounge

lifestyle.livemint.com/food/cook/how-…
There are a few versions in Hindu mythology of how the tulsi plant came to be. One such version has been narrated in the book The Tale of the Tulsi Plant and other studies by C A Kincaid, published in 1908. This is a tale that is told in the Padmapurana.
Vrinda, the daughter of an asura king was married to another asura Jalandhar, who had the boon that he would die only at Shiva’s hands. Jalandhar grew in strength and became invincible such that even the gods came to fear him.
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