Someone at the table points to the jaronce stuffed to the brim with Mother’s Picklesbut now carefully filled with aged avakaya,and asks, “What’s that?” It …
Avakaya
Editors’ Note
Dear Readers, We often hear that simple, everyday life holds all the magic and chaos of the universe. With this in mind, we decided to …
Manmarziyaan 2022 Issue 1
Editors’ Note 6 Food Stories We Loved Avakaya Culinary Explorations of a Traveller: Kerala to Delhi My Journey at Enactus KMC: Community, Learning, and Fulfillment …
Culinary Explorations of a Traveller: Kerala to Delhi
Savouring South Indian Delicacies A few years ago, I was travelling solo in the South Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu and was quite …
My Journey at Enactus KMC: Community, Learning, and Fulfillment
We tend to have preconceived notions about how college life looks even before it actually starts. I had dreamt of an experience that provided me …
Dishes Nobody Prepares Anymore
If you were a child in Germany in 1946and survival was your recipeyou would have knownall the dishes of those post-war years–Brennnesseln, Sauerampher, Bucheckern,Steinpilze, Pfifferlinge, …
A Chicken Curry Seasoned with Love and Prejudices
Although I was brought up by parents who are excellent cooks, along with a sibling who inherited the same talent, I have never been keen …
Joy of Food
A man I loved handed me a plate of nachos suprême in 1969, he said do as you may with it, I’m here to only …
Half
It takes two peopletragically bad at cookingTo make upma on a Sunday morning.It is already 9As four feet, a generation apartMarch in, with a pair …
She/Her
By Farheen Sahban Perhaps happiness loves grief too muchAnd therefore it retires to make room for grief at the dining tableJust like my mother who …