Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights, marks the Hindu new year, and is celebrated with great ceremony among Houston's large South Asian community, with the lighting of candles and sparklers, ...

Younger South Asian cooks are riffing on these classics, turning them into cookies, pies and ice cream, and (gasp!) adding salt. By Priya Krishna The brightly hued sweets at a mithai shop — ...

In the ’90s, spice and halal meat were not easy to come by in my hometown in Michigan, so on ambitious days, my mother would skip the drive to Detroit and head to Devon Avenue in West Ridge. The ...

India's mithai business has been a hyper-local and mostly seasonal affair for a long time, sold in neighborhood shops and consumed mainly during festivals. But that's rapidly changing. A new wave of ...

You won’t miss the yellow façade of Saffron & Mishri blooming with flowers of its namesake in Mahalaxmi’s bylane, off Jacob Circle. A slender flight of white marble steps makes it easy to presume that ...