Many flavours, one festival
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Festivals and feasts go together and Christmas is no exception. Here’s what’s cooking in kitchens for the big feast
In India, every community has made Christmas their own. It is marked by feasts featuring regional dishes, and some ubiquitous Christmas must-haves. We asked a diverse group of Bengalureans what’s cooking for Christmas and here’s what we found.
The Anglo-Indian feast
Joan McLeod, the 63-year-old resident of Hutchins Road in Cooke Town, whose great grandfathers hail from Switzerland and Scotland, serves up a typical Anglo-Indian Christmas feast. She consults a 200-year-old recipe book, which has handwritten recipes and clippings by her mother, grandmother and grand aunts. “Every year, I make