Maharashtrian · India
Ukadiche Modak
Steamed rice-flour dumplings filled with coconut, jaggery, and cardamom. Ganesh Chaturthi’s offering, and the best thing in the house that week.
1 hr 5 minWeekendVegetarian
Ganesh Chaturthi · 14 September
Ukadiche Modak
Steam ukadiche modak — coconut and jaggery in a rice-flour skin. The offering, and the evening snack.
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Slow-roasted gram flour, ghee, and sugar, rolled while warm. The Diwali tin. The tin that never lasts until January.
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Atlas
Eight kitchens, one pantry
The same onion, tomato, and spice tin can become dinner in eight traditions. Pick a region.
Journal
How the world cooks Tuesday
The table · 5 min
Khana rozana: the meal you already have
The name is Hindi-Urdu for everyday food. This kitchen is built for that — not restaurant fantasy, but the world’s daily plates.
Pantry · 6 min
The spice route is already in the cupboard
Black pepper, chili, cumin, cinnamon: a short history of how the world’s trade winds ended up in a weeknight pan.
Craft · 4 min
How to cook from leftovers like a grandmother
Every cuisine has a name for yesterday’s rice. Here is how to think like the person who never wasted a scallion.