Food
Across Space,
…both cyber and geographical, across time, CET and IST, they were connected by food.What did you eat? Are the mangoes ripe at the farm? See what I have in my fridge in this faraway place, it’s called spargel in the German tongue. I foraged some barkesoppu for lunch today, yesterday we found a pumpkin growing near the fence. Will you be home for Ugadi lunch? Via WhatsApp they shared menus and recipes for egg biriyani, pumpkin sambar, ginger chutney, ragi mudde, paneer and pasta.
Time is inexplicable. Nagamma is shocked that Kirtana won’t come by for Ugadi lunch and then return to her work in Germany.
Kirtana cooks fettuccini with spinach and garlic
Spinach for either bass saaru or fettuccini
Cooking a simple Indian meal in Germany
What Kirtana’s face would fall into in wild delight, an erdbeer royale
Moka coffee
Lunch of Turkish bread, harissa and salad at Villa Waldberta.
Kirtana’s kitchen table in Germany
Mushroom risotto with chives and red wine
Kirtana cooks pandhi curry with wilt schwein for
all the artists at Villa Waldberta
Chillies grown at the farm
Avvarekai cooked with tamarind
Black Rice with coconut milk
Cooking Dal-Baati over woodfire
Cooking Dal-Baati over woodfire
Harvesting Sapotas
Multigrain adai and microgreens
Nagamma with drumsticks
Nagamma with soppu
Slice of Mava Cake with apples on top
Slice of Mava Cake
Wild Mushrooms
