Nandita Godbole

Tripti Yoganathan’s teapots combine beauty and utility:

She's exhibited her work at shows dedicated exclusively to teapots, as well as at national events like the American Craft Council series and the Smithsonian Craft Show.

This is an artist profile interview.

Nandita Godbole's prolific work as a cookbook author, showcasing six main cookbooks, and several cook-book samplers.

Her books improve a diners' perceptions about Indian food, and show how effortless and healthy it can be. Addressing various niche topics, Godbole aims to help readers explore Indian cuisine at its very core - far past the restaurant curries and buffet counters.

Atlanta-based author Nandita Godbole celebrates her Indian heritage and family recipes in her new biographical fiction,”Ten Thousand Tongues: Secrets of a Layered Kitchen.” It also comes with a companion cookbook.

The stories pay homage to the eight female matriarchs in her family that inspired her culinary journey. Each of the sections in the cookbook are recipes from each of the matriarchs, spanning five generations.

“I began by talking with my father and I wanted to understand my own herit...

The Indian monsoon is often romanticized in poetry, song, and love stories. However, as a child in my hometown of Mumbai, its arrival usually meant a week of cold, fever, and a sinus infection.
Though it would start with sniffles, it would quickly devolve into suffocating bronchial congestion and cough brought on by the humid weather.
The family physician Dr. Kamat would make a house call, prescribe antibiotics, and write my medical excuse for school advising bed rest for a week.
I’d have lit...

Exploring regional Indian biryani's - and restaurants that serve them in Southern California.

CanvasRebel interviewed me for their readership.

Restaurant review: Five great spots for regional specialties from across India, in metro Atlanta.

This Farmhouse Clove G&T features exotic aromas enhanced with clove-smoked ice. Author Nandita Godbole shares her recipe below, pulled from her newest cookbook: Masaleydaar: Classic Indian Spice Blends, 2022. Explains Godbole, “The farm was our summer escape, away from the hustle and bustle of Mumbai, less than a hundred miles away. Morning tea was always made with a leaflet or two of lemongrass. While mid-day meals were laid out indoors away from the hot sun, evening meals were laid out picnic style in the courtyard, under the summer skies. ....."

Get to know vanilla flavoring and its tricky twin, artificial vanilla flavor.
In a world of endless flavor possibilities, there’s something so comforting about vanilla.

Like any good urban center, the Bay Area has no dearth of fantastic Indian restaurants. They range from casual to upscale, those with dine-in choices to those strictly geared for take-out. And while the South Bay includes many easily accessible hidden and not-so-hidden gems, many of the region’s best Indian restaurants showcase the complex and varied offerings of flavor-filled and decadent regional Indian cuisine. So whether you crave familiar Indian restaurant fare or dishes that push the en...

Enjoy the taste of umami with the following foods that bring the flavor to any dish or cuisine with the help of glutamate and free glutamate.
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Sumitra and Ashok Bhattacharyya arrived in Atlanta in the late 1960s, part of a wave of South Asian immigrants settling in the area. India’s independence from Britain in 1947 led to the emergence of a new middle class, who soon began emigrating to countries like the U.S. and the U.K. in search of education and jobs. In Atlanta, some found teaching and research positions, and a lively intellectual atmosphere, on campuses like Emory University and Georgia Tech. What they didn’t find, in the mid...

Most parents raise their children to become the best versions of themselves, says NANDITA GODBOLE in an essay that captures a rite of passage familiar to all families: Leaving home. Having experienced discrimination as an immigrant, she has encouraged her American-born daughter to explore possibilities where none existed, to dream big, and above all, to remember that nothing is impossible.

Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India, is full of natural remedies for both health woes and beauty needs. One of the many versatile Ayurvedic herbs is haritaki. Technically the fruit of the deciduous myrobalan plum tree, haritaki is considered an important herb in Ayurveda and Siddha medicine, both forms of indigenous medicine in India. Practitioners of Ayurveda include it as part of treatment for a host of ailments, including both short-term and chronic health concerns. Haritaki is one part of the trifecta of the beneficial Ayurvedic blend, triphala, along with bibhitaki and amla.

After a long shift of making pasta and pizzas at the University of Illinois dining hall, I was exhausted — and deserved a treat.
It was the 1990s, I was an international graduate student, and as I made my way back to my apartment in Champaign, I saw a small new Indian restaurant at the edge of campus and skeptically stepped inside. Familiar aromas greeted me. My latent homesickness from several months away from family in Mumbai finally registered, because it seemed to lift.
I felt like I was ...