"Pidathala remembered how when she was a child, she heard the sizzle of dried red chiles and mustard seeds in hot ghee, and smelled the perfume of crackling curry leaves in the air, it was just as if a bell had been rung...in the private, idiosyncratic language of her family, it meant it was time for lunch."
Recipes and stories available in Five Morsels of Love, created by Archana Pidathala, based on her grandmother G.Nirmala Reddy’s 1974 Telugu cookbook Vanita Vantakalu.
Story captured by Tejal Rao in "A Spicy, Crunchy Indian Fish Fry the Way Her Grandmother Liked It" for the New York Times Magazine.
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