In 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,…
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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…
Read moreThe Time of the Rains: A Mexican Prose Poem
Don Bruno in his milpa (corn, beans and squash) On the August 20, 2002, Don Bruno stood in my garden in Guanajuato, Mexico and delivered this wonderful prose poem. Rushing…
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