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    Five years ago, Ripple Desai opened the Tandoori Taqueria in her hometown of Panguitch, Utah, tapping into a growing tourist market.
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    Utah's 'Tandoori Taqueria' Brings Unexpected Indian Spice To Cowboy Country

    Jul 14, 2019
    Taco shops are easier to find in rural Utah than Indian restaurants. The Tandoori Taqueria fuses both cuisines and it's doing brisk business in the middle of cowboy country.
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    Chickpea flour is gaining attention thanks to its gluten-free binding properties. But the ingredient has been a staple of cooking for Indians, Pakistanis and many others for centuries.
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    How Did Chickpea Flour, A Staple Of Indian Cuisine, Become A Health Food Sensation?

    May 12, 2019
    Indians, along with the Nepalese, Pakistanis and many others, have been cooking with it for centuries. As Americans now embrace this ingredient with gusto, will its culinary heritage get blurred?
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    Some of the 20 different types of rice used during the three-month festival Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India. Chefs served two varieties of rice every day, along with multiple dishes of vegetables and meat or seafood.
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    Edible Archives Project Aims To Revive Hundreds Of Vanishing Indian Rice Strains

    Apr 12, 2019
    As hybrid varieties gained popularity, hundreds of indigenous strains of rice — and knowledge about them — disappeared. But chefs, farmers and researchers are trying to reconnect to that heritage.
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    The Salt
    <em>Rosogolla</em>, also known as <em>rasgulla</em>, is a simple white spongy ball, made of <em>chhena</em>, an Indian version of cottage cheese, dunked in syrup.  Above, newer, colorful iterations of this classic sweet are for sale during Rosogolla Day
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    An Indian Dessert, Beloved And Battled Over, Now Stars In Its Own Movie

    Dec 21, 2018
    Rosogolla is a classic Indian sweet, so loved that a new film tells its "bittersweet" origin story. But that story comes with its own version of a political birther controversy.
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    The Salt
    On offer at Chungam: A salad of sardines tossed with red chiles, turmeric, lime and freshly grated coconut flesh.
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    For A True Taste Of South India, Try A Toddy Shop

    Jun 12, 2018
    Toddy is a type of palm wine made from the fermented sap of coconut flowers. But the best toddy shops in southwestern India are celebrated for the spicy, coconutty food they serve with the drink.
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    The Salt
    Old-timers will tell you that the vessel you use to make<em> kalchi koddi</em> can make all the difference in its taste. Fish curry is traditionally cooked, or reheated, in a<em> kunddlem</em>, an earthen pot.
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    An Ode To Leftover Curry: The Next-Day Treasure Of Coastal India

    Mar 11, 2018
    Necessity is the mother of invention, and in this case, the reason behind kalchi koddi, a tasty staple of Goa.
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    A series of spices used in <em>rajma</em>
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    'Bollywood Kitchen': A Celebration Of Indian-American Cuisine

    Dec 23, 2017
    A new cookbook aims to capture the blended cuisine of second-generation Indian-Americans. It pairs recipes with Bollywood movies, for an added taste of home.
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    Anne and her mom, Elizabeth Noyes
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    When Falling In Love Meant Embracing A New Cuisine

    Aug 07, 2017
    When a meat-and-potatoes white girl from the Midwest fell for an Indian vegetarian, it raised complicated questions about what it means to pass on our food cultures from one generation to the next.
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    NPR's Ari Shapiro shared this Instagram story of the cucumber dish that reminds him of his childhood summers in Oregon.
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    #NPRHotPot: Share Your Food Memories With Us

    Jun 28, 2017
    Post a video or photo of a favorite dish on Instagram or Twitter with the hashtag #NPRHotPot from now until August 1. We'll gather some of our favorites and post them on our website.
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    The author's <em>tahri, </em>from a family recipe
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    The Tahri That Binds: How A Sweet Rice Dish Connects A Woman To Her History

    Mar 29, 2017
    Making the traditional foods of home on the holiday of Cheti Chand — which falls on March 29 this year — helps a member of the Hindu Sindhi diaspora feel less disjointed.
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    Crispy and flavorful masala vadai is a popular street food in  South India.
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    How A Broken-Hearted Young Girl Found Healing In Her Grandmother's Vadais

    Feb 21, 2017
    Love can come from where you least expect it. And while a girl learns from her grandmother how to make her favorite Indian breakfast treat, she finds that food, family and love are often intertwined.
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    Young Indian women eat the popular food snack<em> vada pav</em> at a Jumboking outlet in Mumbai.
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    Meet Mumbai's Iconic Veggie Burger

    Nov 04, 2016
    Invented by a street vendor in the 1960s, vada pav is Mumbai's most loved street food. But now, there are vada pav chains selling frozen and fried versions of this iconic dish.
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    A vendor sells fried snacks on a train in northern India. Food vendors are a regular presence on most trains, jumping on and off trains at various stations, offering passengers a welcome snack break during their long journeys.
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    In India, A Rich Food Culture Vanishes From The Train Tracks

    Sep 17, 2016
    Once upon a time, most of the millions of people who travel on India's vast train network brought their own food or bought it from vendors at stations. Sharing meals could turn strangers into friends.
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    Staff at the cafe make pudding cups.
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    He Used To Live On The Streets Of Mumbai. Now, His Cafe Welcomes Everyone

    Aug 24, 2016
    Amin Sheikh's new cafe is a rarity in class-stratified India: It's open to people from all walks of life. Sheikh is a former street child, and so are many of his employees.
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    <em>Daal — </em>yellow, red, brown or black — is a staple across India. It is often described, inadequately, I think, as lentil soup. Except it's so much more.
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    A Longing For Lentils, Or How I Learned To Find Home Where The Daal Is

    Jul 08, 2016
    Daal, yellow, red, brown or black, is a staple across India. It is often described, inadequately, as lentil soup. Except it's so much more. For a lifelong expat, it's an anchor in a shifting world.
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    Bechan Baba in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
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    Tea Tuesday: Meet The Chai Wallahs Of India

    Jun 14, 2016
    Resham Gellatly and Zach Marks spent eight months traveling through India, meeting with hundreds of India's chai wallahs — or tea vendors — who highlight the country's culture and diversity.
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    A seagull got a day-glo makeover when he fell into a vat of chicken tikka masala in Wales. He was taken to a wildlife hospital that says the bird will be fine.
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    Curious Orange: Gull Gets Dyed After Diving Into Vat Of Tikka Masala

    Jun 09, 2016
    A seagull got the day-glo treatment after it fell into a vat of spicy chicken at a factory in Wales.
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    From India To North Korea, Via Japan: Curry's Global Journey

    Apr 08, 2016
    From British colonials who fell in love with "curry powder" in India, to Koreans who encountered the taste in Imperial Japan, the story of curry is one of globalization writ on a dish.
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    Beetroot wine, fermented in a large ceramic jug. One of the pleasures of winemaking is watching the fermentation — which you can only do when using glass jars. "For beetroot, which is a root, the fizzing is mild, like a carbonated drink poured into gla
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    From Beetroot To Pineapple, Homemade Wines Sweeten Christmas In India

    Dec 24, 2015
    Across India, Christian communities make sweet homemade wines for the festive season from an array of local fruit, roots and grain. But the know-how behind this ancient tradition may be disappearing.
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    The house — or truck — specialty is <em>kabiraji</em>. It's usually a minced chicken or mutton cutlet deep-fried in a nest of egg, a sinfully beloved Kolkata favorite. Agdum Bagdum marries it with an American-style hamburger.
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    America's Food Truck Craze Parks On The Streets Of Kolkata

    Nov 11, 2015
    Kolkata now has its first food truck: Agdum Bagdum, which hawks Indian fusion food. It was inspired by American food trucks — which were originally inspired by street food in places like Kolkata.
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    Indian spices for sale at the Anjuna flea market in Goa, India.
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    How Snobbery Helped Take The Spice Out Of European Cooking

    Mar 26, 2015
    Complex, contrasting flavors are a hallmark of Indian cooking. They used to dominate Western food, too. What changed? When spices became less exclusive, Europe's elite revamped their cuisines.
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