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Madhur Jaffrey: Mistress of Spices

By Lavina Melwani • Aug 20th, 2009 • Category: 24/7 Talk is Cheap - The Blog, Food, People

“In our family, the moment a child is born, my grandmother would come with a jar of honey and would dip her little finger into the honey and write ‘Om’ on the baby’s tongue with it. And my mother always tells me, ‘You just opened your mouth and licked up the honey and when she put it again, you licked it up again.”