NOT a food blog
1. “I am living in a landscape that marks the clock Where heat is the brief midsummer play Of jasmine on the slated roofs.” It is the season of the coming and going of friends. A brief weekend of girlish giggles over insightful, whimsical, intellectual, playful Readings at Seksan’s, where she read her poems to an […]
1. “Are you the type who likes surprises”, he asked on Facebook. 2. The best type of surprise. When someone pays attention to what you said in an earlier conversation on Tagore and Murakami and the silken liquid voice of Bernice Chauly. And he even got it autographed for me. I can’t contain my pleasure. It’s not […]
1. “Hi. Would you like to go out with us?” Exactly a year ago, a couple of months after A Whiff of Lemongrass came into existence, I ventured out of my comfort zone and agreed to do the unthinkable – meeting strangers whose acquaintance I had made online. It meant several things to me, but most […]
Food, for me, is a means to an end and not an end in itself.
Food, for me, represents the love of family, the fellowship of friends, and the community and communality it brings.