In Spice-Laden Kerala, a Break From Urban India
- 7 years ago
In Spice-Laden Kerala, a Break From Urban India
After 14 hours in a plane that took us through Qatar and then to Kochi, the largest urban area in Kerala — its airport is the first in the world run completely on solar power — we found ourselves in this beach resort dissecting the new wave of Indian travel over fried chicken
that was almost like the banana-leaf-wrapped version she used to eat as a child at street stalls called thattu kadaas.
She made her way to New York City before landing in Atlanta, where she has made a career out of blending the food of the Indian South with the American South, first at Cardamom Hill
and now out of a private kitchen called The Third Space.
After 14 hours in a plane that took us through Qatar and then to Kochi, the largest urban area in Kerala — its airport is the first in the world run completely on solar power — we found ourselves in this beach resort dissecting the new wave of Indian travel over fried chicken
that was almost like the banana-leaf-wrapped version she used to eat as a child at street stalls called thattu kadaas.
She made her way to New York City before landing in Atlanta, where she has made a career out of blending the food of the Indian South with the American South, first at Cardamom Hill
and now out of a private kitchen called The Third Space.