Chronicles Of The Sassy Fork

Was extremely happy to be a part of "Maharashtrian Mejwani",a celebration of food from different parts of Maharashtra,part of the Culinary Legacy series at   A Perfect Bite Cook Studio that seeks to educate people on traditional food from every community.You can read about some of the Maharashtrian cooking styles here ,as covered by India Food Network.Vidharbha,Khandeshi,Saraswat , CKP and East Indian cuisines are to be covered in events later. The anchor was film critic and blogger Shakti Salgaonkar-Yezdani, grand daughter of the late Jayant Salgaonkar who started the hugely popular Marathi and English Kalnirnay Calendar,which enlists all days of religious significance and has recipes at the page of each page.Shakti has authored an endearing book herself,called "Imperfect Mr Right".She is currently Wordsmith with Qyuki.She spoke of how she learnt cooking from both her grandmothers.While helping them,she realized why a curry made from hand ground coconu...

Went to the Bombay Local,an event that is young,peppy,colorful and superbly curated by the Small Fry Co! This time it was at the Khar Gymkhana and was on a much bigger scale. When we entered,the Food Memory project was being discussed on stage by  Kalyan Karmakar,Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal,Kurush Dalal and Rukmankan Sivaloganathan.Ranveer Brar spoke of the khansamas under whom he learnt and how he was taught about perfection and the importance of the smallest of steps.Kurush spoke of Gastronomic Heritage and made reference to Bimba Nayak who serves lovely Pathare Prabhu food.Rukmankan runs Trekurious that makes exciting home chef meals available to all The Project involves pasting post-its with your favorite food memory on the installation and sending postcards to the person you want to thank for having fed you in the past.The table had glass jars with jeera goli and candies,which transported you to your childhood.The positive response that Rushina got for her book ...

I was back at the Pathare Prabhu Community Hall at Khar for another culinary treat.This time it was organized by the Pathare Prabhu Mahila Samaj which was celebrating 100 years since its establishment in September 1915.A special all women's cooking contest was organized as was the Junior Pathare Prabhu Masterchef Competition The organizers provided gas cylinders to each adult participant...there were 21 adults and 7 children.There was a magic box of ingredients and each adult had to use three from it and each child two. The time limit was one hour for children and two hours for adults.This was to be judged by Chef Tushar Deshmukh who is a self taught chef.He learnt from his mother and when she died in the bomb blasts that struck our city,he took to cooking under his grandmother's watchful eye(at the age of 9 years) and credits her for his success.His mother used to run the Jindal canteen and died on her way back from work.Tushar went through hard times and...