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A tranquil space for lunch or tea

On that busy stretch of Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Central squares, a sidewalk vent lets out a sudden gust from below. The Red Line rumbles underfoot. A few doors away, inside the Greater Boston Buddhist Cultural Center, everything is peaceful and quiet. A large...

Truck Mixes Tradition With Innovation

The exterior of the truck looks like a dry-erase board. On the white surface, Ayr Muir, the 31-year-old proprietor of Clover Food Lab and an MIT alum, writes out the day's menu as soon as he gets the ovens going every morning. The truck's handwritten...

Melding Indian spices, she’s in a class by herself

SINGAPORE -- The bustling, chaotic streets of Little India in Singapore seem different from the other orderly neighborhoods. Here, hit Tamil tunes spill out of record stores, which makes passersby want to break into dance (a dappan kuthu step would be best), and sidewalk flower...

Guru the Caterer’s Following Has a Taste For Indian Food

Four years ago, Guru the Caterer set up shop on Broadway here. The sign read "divine Indian food for brilliant minds" and listed the contact information, but the shutters remained closed most of the time. Meanwhile, a minivan with the same intriguing tagline was zipping...

Indian Ban leads to Lentil Shortage

In the hands of an Indian cook, lentils - also called dals or pulses - might be made into spinach dal or sambar. Whatever dish they go into, they feature prominently on the daily menu of most Indian-American families. Open a kitchen cabinet in a...