I grew up in a lively city in southern India. Summers were long and winters mild. I marked the time of the year by the seasonal fruit and vegetables that vendors carried through the city streets on carts. The vendors called out their wares just as American ice cream trucks play music to announce their…
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Order Out with Take-In
“When I was growing up in India, you could always tell if other kids’ parents liked you because they would give you the rice on the bottom of the pot,” Mira D’Souza tells me, scraping her wooden serving spoon down the sides and across the bottom of a 4-gallon pot. She scoops the last serving…