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Now We’re Cooking with Jaggery!

“Can I help you sir?” asked the young man at the Indian/Himalayan market.  Big smile, hands wrung together, plastic sandals.  Already I was thinking the answer was probably ‘no’. “Do you have any jaggery?” I asked. Now his smile was

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Chai: Solved

The great chai mystery has been cracked.  My previous attempts at making strong chai in the office, here and here, were foiled by physics (shakes fist at universe) and operator error (shakes fist at self).  As is so often the

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Chai Update 2

Chalk one up for the marvel of the market system.  Five minutes after my last post I’d found a mug that looked like it would fit the bill.  One hour later I walked to a Starbucks two blocks from my

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Chai Update

I’m about halfway there.  I put together a new spice mixture, packed it in a baby food jar for work, and brought in the blank teabags to make myself some chai.  I funneled in a teaspoon and a half of

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Making Your Own Chai

What is it about spices that keeps me intrigued?  It brings out the kid in me, opening up little jars with exotic powders, shaking in a bit here, a sprinkle there.  Playing with spices is getting to experiment with a

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