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Tangra Fall: An Indo-Chinese Pop up Dinner

Who needs Thanksgiving when you have the chance to eat an awesome multi-course dinner prepared by two of our favorite teachers, Chitra Agrawal and Diana Kuan?

Tangra Fall is "a vegetarian, seasonal Indo-Chinese pop-up feast" taking place on Saturday, November 16 at the Court Tree Collective in Carroll Gardens, and, judging by the photo above, you don't want to miss it. 

Tickets went fast for the summer edition, so be sure to grab...

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Anatomy of a Recipe - Kosambri: South Indian Carrot Salad

One of the most intimidating things about trying a new recipe is sourcing the sometimes hard-to-find ingredients, so we wanted to give you a cheat sheet on where to find them, based on our 7,000 years of experience tracking things down for classes. 

Let's start with Kosambri, a traditional South Indian carrot salad; the recipe comes from Chitra Agrawal's excellent blog, The ABCD's of Cooking. I've been lucky to have this...

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Event Heads Up: Tangra Summer on August 25

Every so often, an event comes along that makes me really, really happy to live in New York. This summer, that event is Tangra Summer, a pop-up feast hosted by Diana Kuan and Chitra Agrawal at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum on August 25th. 

Both Diana and Chitra teach for us and are completely awesome, and the concept for the dinner—"the food pays tribute to Tangra, a Calcutta neighborhood that is home to generations of Hakka...

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