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Truck Mixes Tradition With Innovation

The exterior looks like a dry-erase board, but it's an essential feature of the truck. 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...

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

SINGAPORE --The bustling streets of Little India, an ethnic quarter in this city, seem removed from the other orderly neighborhoods. Here, hit Tamil tunes spill out of record stores, which makes passersby break into a dance (typically a dappan kuthu step), and sidewalk flower sellers...

A ‘miracle tree’ that could feed sub-Saharan Africa

As a child growing up in India, I greeted the appearance of one particular vegetable on my plate with exaggerated distaste: tender seedpods from the moringa tree, locally known as “drumsticks.” Imagine my surprise when I heard a health worker from sub-Saharan Africa describe this...

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...

The charms of Indian beach food

Urban beaches the world over have their own peculiar charms. There is foot volleyball in Brazil's Copacabana and surfing at Sydney's Bondi beach, but beaches in Indian cities have one big draw – food. In my hometown of Chennai, fishermen set off in rudimentary catamarans...

Yogurts of the world

Walking down the dairy section of the supermarket, a yogurt aficionado finds plenty to choose from. Among the multitude of flavored yogurts with varying percentages of fat, some have toppings, others have preserves at the bottom, still others can be sipped from a plastic bottle....