I’ll be honest: India wasn’t on my bucket list. For years, I had filed it under someday, maybe. Too remote. Too vast. Too chaotic. Too far outside my comfort zone. I was convinced I wouldn’t find anything to eat. I’m not a fan of Indian food. Curry isn’t my thing. I genuinely pictured myself picking at […]

There’s a moment that happens in certain places — when you’re sitting at a table you couldn’t have found on your own, eating something you couldn’t have ordered without context, and you realize the food you’re eating is actually an entire history lesson, a conversation about who these people are and what they’ve survived and […]