Photo Project: Day 5- Interiors

This is a labour of love. Plants. Books. Accumulated. Nurtured.

Photo Project: Day 3- Food

How do you adapt to a place? Warm up to it? Find something strange and make it familiar?

When I shifted to this city in South India, I was very apprehensive about the language, the people, new workplace, setting up a home. And also the food.

While we looked for a job and a home during our first trip here, we checked into an Airbnb where the lunch menu featured a curry called ‘Gutti vankaya’. I ordered it with my trademark ‘please don’t put dhaniya in it’. I loved it! It was cooked by a Bengali cook, yet the taste of this traditional and simple Andhra dish was unaltered. I loved the brinjals stuffed with a flavourful paste of peanuts, imli and masalas.

And I found a favourite vegetarian dish in this strange (to me) city famous for biryanis! It was what I cooked when I moved into a new home. And once every week since then!

Gutti Vankaya curry