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New York’s Hottest Indian Chefs

By Lavina Melwani • Mar 17th, 2010 • Category: Food

Meet some of the Big Apple’s hottest and happening Indian chefs…

They are the interpreters of Indian Cuisine, the innovators who aren’t afraid to experiment and create, adding new dimensions to the food they grew up with, giving an exciting buzz to the ho-hum chicken tikka masala and palak paneer which has become the norm of Indian restaurants around the world. Some of them are at the helm of New York’s most noted Indian restaurants and bring in the foodies.


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.”