When Ritu Krishna first arrived in the U.S., ingredients for her Indian recipes were hard to come by. Over time, Ritu's cooking started to evolve. The biggest influence was watching cooking programs ...

When it comes to Indian food, oil plays a key role in defining the taste and nutrition. They are calorie-dense and provide the body with concentrated energy to fuel daily activities, and the presence ...

A few weeks ago, I reached out to my mother — a phenomenal Indian home cook — with the hopes that she would pass down her wisdom to me this Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. You can ...

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 ...

Raghavan Iyer, whose books and spirited teaching spread the cuisine, is using his last days to get familiar comfort foods to patients like himself. As the end of his life nears, Raghavan Iyer is ...

This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we bring you an icon of the community. Madhur Jaffrey first made Indian cuisine accessible to the West decades ago with her milestone cookbook, ...