Pushpesh Pant is the author of ‘India: The Cook Book’, which was listed as New York Times Bestseller published by Phaidon (London). He is also the author of ‘The Indian Vegetarian (Phaidon)’ and ...

The winters used to be long and hard in Mukteshwar, a small hill station at around 8,000 feet in the Kumaon-Garhwal pahars, or hills, where I was born and grew up more than half a century ago.

Food obviously played a key role in Pushpesh Pant’s childhood. In his introduc­tion to The Indian Vegetarian Cookbook (2018), he writes that he was raised by an extended family in Mukteshwar, “a small ...

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