![]() ![]() Even the textures were new and different.īecause I’ve never learned to satisfactorily duplicate those flavors in my kitchen, some of the wonder and excitement remains to this day, no matter how often I eat it. There were unfamiliar ingredients - I didn’t know what cardamom or even turmeric were then - but the food was vibrantly colorful and fragrant in a way that I hadn’t experienced before. I tried Indian food for the first when I was in my teens and I still remember it being a transporting experience. Growing up in Iowa in the ’80s and ’90s, a time when the restaurant landscape was dominated by corporate chains, I didn’t have much exposure to food from other parts of the world.
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