No Yeast Bread Yeast. It's a thing that causes bread dough to rise. There are other things that can cause bread to rise, other than yeast. Like sourdough starters, which I have used and it was good! See here for more. But what if you have no yeast and no sourdough starter, what…
Bread Bread is essential to life. Man can live by bread alone. Butter, jam, bacon, ham; all these are mere bonuses. Of course, we know that bacon makes the world go round. But then, some will say, the world has always been round. At which point I have to remind people that the…
The Summer of '23 'twas a busy one, was the summer of '23. In case, you're wondering, the apostrophe replaces the '20' in front of the '23', thus, '23 means '2023'. Now, you're wondering what's all this then? Why this overuse of apostrophes? Why are you wasting my time? Well, the truth is…
The Muffins What is (or are) muffins? This is a good question. I think we need to clear this up, because there are two basic types. Muffins, which most Americans will recognise as that cylindrical shape, growing symmetrically in girth from bottom to top, topped with a mushroom head; which, IMO, is the…
What a week that was! A time for recovery, mostly. And a restart that didn't quite go to plan. Recovery As some of you know, I got back last week from the longest vacation I have ever taken. It required more than the usual amount of planning, more than the usual amount of…
About Indrani Ganguli and their work Indrani Ganguli is an interpreter of languages. She’s as adept at staring down recalcitrant witnesses in court while taking down their depositions as she is compassionate with those who clearly are devastated at being there at all. Her stories are rich in classical allusions even as they…
About Neelesh Inamdar and their work Born and brought up in the Mumbai suburbs, relocated from a school run by Indians to one run by Catholic priests, books found me when I was just 7. I grew up on the streets of London, holding the hands of Dickens, Conan Doyle, and a host…
About Sarbari Sen and their work Sarbari Sen is a world famous chef in her family. She feeds one husband, one daughter, one son and their many friends as often as she can. When not making rosgullas she dabbles in homeopathy, tolerates her kids and concocts tales of murder and mayhem. She has…
About Debaleena Mukherjee and their work Debaleena is a homemaker who also reads and writes. Reading isn’t about “making time to read”. She reads wherever, whatever, whenever. Writing is her articulation of all the incoherence in her head. She lives in Bangalore. She needs books, coffee and cake, a reading-light and her recliner. Ink-Smudged Dreams-…