I needed an angry farmer. That’s what a friend from church told me after I described a very stuck piston in an old motorcycle that Daughter No. 3 and I are working to restore. “I need a what?” I asked ...

India’s curry isn’t one dish — it’s a thousand, shaped by soil, season, ports and forests. Every 200 kilometres, the spice box changes, retelling history through flavour. Malabar’s pepper, Kodagu’s ...