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We were invited to stay a week with Mummi, Sumi and Mayna Deka, an Indian family living in North Guwahati in the state of Assam where we were treated to the greatest delicacy India has to offer; home cooking.
Bread
Shari: I was given the task of coming up with bread for brunch service that kept well, toasted nicely and could easily be made entirely by hand. Delightfully dense, moist potato bread seemed a natural fit. Of course this being Culina plain old potato bread just wouldn’t do. So I switched [...]
Duck Dogs
The kitchen is a micro melting pot of bizarre and wonderful ideas, most, having had their ten seconds of theoretical fame, inevitably slip into the past. Once every so often, though, an idea comes along that is so far out, so ludicrous, so arrogant that it would be a carnal culinary sin not to attempt it. That is why we turn ducks into hot dogs at Culina.
Spring Lamb
Perhaps it is monstrous to end the life of something you’ve raised. But is it monstrous to be this close to food?
10 Rabbits from Paddle River
I rarely question the origin of a bag of green onions. The kitchen isn’t unlike a video store that gets new releases, or an auto-body shop that gets front fenders. Scallions simply arrive on my cutting board and I cut them—thinly, on a bias—into garnish…easy. I don’t question where they’re from or [...]
