Dining with the Dead
[A slightly edited version of a piece I originally published on October 31st, 2015] Every year of the fifteen I lived in Mexico I enjoyed seeing graves decorated with flowers,…
Read moreIn Memoriam Ammini Ramachandran
Ammini Ramachandran passed away peacefully and surrounded by her family on Friday 16th August. She was 81. Her evocative, yet meticulous accounts of the vegetarian cuisine of her native Kerala,…
Read moreThree Lessons from My Husband’s Descent into Dementia
For at least six years before his death, my husband suffered from dementia. Dementia, as I am sure you know, is the the general term for the many forms of…
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