It occurred to me this weekend that even though I’ve been making Indian dishes for the last few recipes, I haven’t made the one thing that Indian food is known for: curry.  Actually, I haven’t made a curry since my very first post (curried vegetable wrap), so I figured this week should definitely be a [...]

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While staying at an ashram near Bangalore in India, I was introduced for the second time to the Ayurvedic practice of kavala graha, commonly known in English as oil pulling.  Ro had first told me about kavala graha when he came back from a 6 month study abroad trip in India 3 years ago.  Practicing [...]

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Well, my attempt this week to make an Indian style dish ended up in a funk of different flavors that didn’t exactly please the palette.  So after having a somewhat unpleasant lunch and getting inspired by an episode of Iron Chef, I decided to take a new direction and make some thing [...]

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Roshi’s Online Store

As the first order of business for this post, I would like to announce the opening of the Roshi’s Online Store.  As our very first product, we will be selling incense sticks (known as agarbathies in India) which I brought back from India this summer.  The incense sticks are hand made by [...]

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Its getting real close to my departure date, and my excitement has just been increasing exponentially.  I just got a guide of all the places to travel to in India, and now I really can’t wait to get there.  All the reading I’ve been doing has also gotten me really craving some Indian food.  One [...]

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It seems like I’m always writing about sugar…
The granulated sugar supply in the U.S. comes from two agricultural sources: half from sugar cane and the other half from sugar beets. Recently, American Crystal, a large Wyoming-based sugar company, along with several other leading sugar manufacturers announced that they will be sourcing their sugar from genetically [...]

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Well, its finally June, and that means only one thing for me. SUMMER VACATION! After working all last summer at a large software corporation, I decided to do things just a bit differently this year. On June 14th, I’ll be heading on over to India, where I’ll be starting a 3 month [...]

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