YOU can’t beat the taste of food at festivities, especially weddings, if the food absorbs the joys of merrymaking! Cooking at any Indian event is done with great fanfare. Relatives and neighbours all come together and are delegated their roles. As kids, we used to carry the puri from the women who were rolling to the men doing the frying. There were always male cooks who had that special hand for curries, palau and all the heavy slogging near the open, wood-fired stoves put together from bricks and adjusted to suit the pot sizes.

October 15, 2017

Tangy tamarind just makes you drool

YOU can’t beat the taste of food at festivities, especially weddings, if the food absorbs the joys of merrymaking! Cooking at any Indian event is done […]
October 14, 2017

Ceremony: Vanua O Ba Welcomes Girmitiyas Descendants

The vanua o Ba has formally accepted the descendants of the Girmityas who will now be known as Luvedra Na Ratu. This is after a veisa […]
October 14, 2017

Bose ni Momo ni Yasana ko Ba formally accept the descendants of the Girmitiyas

The Bose ni Momo ni Yasana ko Ba formally accepted the descendants of the Girmitiyas as part of the 24 districts of the province of Ba. […]
October 8, 2017

Power in a flour

WORKING hard on sugarcane farms from dawn to dusk surviving on a handful laddoo. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Yet that is the power of high-protein, […]