Before any spice touches your tongue or the kitchen fills with aroma, it’s the cooking method that makes all the difference. Indian food isn’t just about the ingredients—it’s also about how you use ...

But Semma’s success has defied all expectations. It is the only Indian restaurant in New York with a Michelin star and Vijaya ...

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 ...