Mother Tongue: Flavours of a Second Generation

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The restaurant is located up the block from the famed Steppenwolf Theatre Company and is housed in a modest gray brick building which bears no external markings beyond its street number. What has often substituted for fresh lettuce, oranges, and other makings of salads and desserts in Midwestern cooking is Jell-O. So a lot of the things we ate was my mum’s Punjabi home cooking – such as keema and tandoori chicken and lots of interesting curries, really buttery daals. Added chopped cilantro and omitted cotija bc I thought I had it in the fridge (I didn’t) but otherwise, aside from adding the spices loosey goosey, followed the recipe pretty closely. Being born both British and Indian, I qualified for adjudication twice: a perpetual code-switching game of cat and mouse with my own dual-rooted identity.

How thrilling and inspiring to be drawn into Gurdeep’s extraordinary diaspora and fantastic world of flavours! Two days ago, I picked up a copy of Janet Letnes Martin and Allen Todnem's Lutheran Church Basement Women, which as its title suggests is a compendium of Lutheran church women's recipes. As with following any new recipes or reading new information, please use your judgement in line with personal dietary/ health requirements. Just the other night I made your banana-oatmeal pancakes in my adapted, savoury version (no bananas) for dinner, topped with cheese and veggies, and it made them so happy.Fresh fruit in winter, and desserts devised from it, were conspicuous luxuries and therefore missing from most Midwestern cooking before the days of the Pacific Fruit Express and more recent air freight. Ha, that’s similar to the method I use for checking if the toaster oven has heated something enough: stick a fork in it for a couple seconds and then touch it lightly to my tongue. What started with a unique assortment of solid wooden furniture has now developed into a full home collection, including small must-have accessories and classic homeware. She is a food columnist for The New York Times, and has written more than 30 cookbooks including Dinner in an Instant, Cook This Now, and In the Kitchen with a Good Appetite. My husband can’t eat beans, so I would swap them for a little ground pork sauteed in the spices, lots of vegetables, and a little rice and cheese.

It wasn't until the advent of electrical refrigeration that Jell-O became a staple of the potluck supper or the women's club luncheon, and that meant town women could serve Jell-O long before country women. But through a lifelong passion for food and cooking, he came to embrace the “delicious contradictions” of his plural British identity. It was very much getting involved, particularly because we are a family that has always put on quite big parties, quite big weddings, and these are big four or five day events where food is the epicentre of it.Only in church-supper and "dead spread" recipes is the tradition of cooking for fifteen to twenty-five continued.

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