It’s not every day that a South Indian restaurant tops The New York Times annual list of New York City’s 100 best restaurants, beating the likes of Atomix and Le Bernardin. But Semma, a cozy Tamil restaurant in NYC’s Greenwich Village, has done that. The brainchild of Madurai-born chef Vijay Kumar, Semma – a Tamil…
I have not posted regularly here in a while but this blog is nothing if not a love letter to Palestine, its people, history, and culture. So if you are someone who is not sure where to start educating yourself about what’s going on or if you have friends and colleagues who keep coming to…
James Beard Award-winning chef Pati Jinich is focused on forging bonds between Mexico and America, her two beloved countries. As the star of PBS’s “Pati’s Mexican Table,” “La Frontera,” and “Panamericana” (which premiered in April 2025), Jinich has become a cultural ambassador whose love language, as she says, is food. In the new docuseries, Jinich…
