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There is no dish called curry in India, and there never was. I said as much on Instagram recently and watched the post detonate, because most people have spent their entire lives using a tin of curry powder into pots without ever suspecting that the tin, the word, and the whole idea behind them are…
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There is a romantic idea, still surprisingly common, that great wine is simply a matter of a good site and a patient grower waiting for the seasons to do their work. If you spend any time in a vineyard now and that illusion falls apart quickly. Across the world, winegrowers are fighting an increasingly physical…
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Every few weeks, usually after a tasting or a panel or a long dinner where I have said one clever thing too many, someone finds a gentle way to ask me the same question. Sometimes it arrives as a compliment and sometimes as sarcasm. What is an Indian woman doing this deep inside French wine?…
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In June 2026 the Recording Academy announced five new Grammy categories, and the one everybody noticed was Best Asian Pop Music Performance. The rules specify that it honours performances originating from or widely recognised within Asian markets, and, crucially, that a song must make meaningful use of one or more Asian languages to qualify. The…
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Living in Beaune, means I spend a great deal of my life watching the weather the way other people watch the news, with dread and a slightly obsessive attention to detail. This year the weather has been the news. If you have followed my Instagram feed through the spring and summer of 2026, you already…
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Let me start with the thing nobody in this industry likes said out loud, don’t cancel me please. The rituals we treat as timeless markers of refinement, the swirl, the sniff, the knowing pause, the correct vocabulary deployed at the correct moment, did not descend from heaven fully formed. They were built by specific people,…
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I must have been in third standard, maybe fourth, when I found the channel that quietly rewired the rest of my life. We had cable television back then, and somewhere between the Hindi film countdown shows and the cricket highlights sat a channel called VH1. For a child growing up in India in the early…
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