This Month’s Film: Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
Cuisine: Indian

I have invited my friend Alice Jackson for lunch on Monday afternoon, so I am going to treat her to the soup and salad courses of my ‘Lagaan’ Indian menu. Alice has graciously agreed to mentor me in the decoration of my new home. She is a fellow Japanophile, and has a rare gift for the art of arrangement [which I sadly lack], not to mention an impressive collection of treasures from her travels in Japan. So I have enlisted her help in the selection of a few items to compliment the ones that I already have, and some guidance on where to put them.

A favor so dear deserves a commensurate reward, so for my lunch with Alice, I am going to make up a big kettle of Mulligatawny soup, and a salad of grilled lamb over a bed of spinach with a side of tomato-cucumber-mint raita. Mmmmm…Just the thought of it makes me hungry already.

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