This post is a follow-up to Vegetable Gardening 101 (read here) wherein I described my gardening routine up to the planting season and wrote I would blog about the post-planting season in October 2022. Unfortunately, my 2022 gardening season was very disappointing. Consequently, I didn’t have the heart to write a follow-up blog. But a year […]
Have You Had an Apple Entrée?
Probably not. I have sampled food in different parts of the world, but I have not seen an apple entrée anywhere other than in my native Kashmir, India. This experience is my motivation to blog about an apple dish. Specifically, I will share a recipe for apples and eggplants from Kashmiri cuisine (get an overview […]
Dogs, Feminism, and Colonialism
When I was a kid, my parents cautioned me not to mess with stray dogs. They drilled into me that a stray-dog bite had to be remedied with 12, or was it 16, shots in the abdomen. This dreadful prospect ingrained a lifelong fear of dogs, of any kind, in me. Ironically, I ended up […]