“Truism: I think of you, my beloved Barima, Mama and Massis, every time I cook!”
I couldn’t have dreamed about writing this cookbook if it were not for my chicken-loving Punjabi family back in India! This chapter is not only an ode to them and my chicken-chomping childhood but also a sincere tribute to my maternal grandmother, my mother and her two sisters, my aunties, who taught me the very meaning of simple, wholesome, traditional cooking. It’s their nurturing wisdom that is generously sprinkled on all my recipes in this cookbook.