It's been going on for days now and predicted to continue through tomorrow. For miles around, everything is coated in layers of ice. Transformers are blowing, trees toppling over, supermarket shelves empty, cars lay abandoned, flipped in ditches.
But so far, temps in my community have hovered around 35. Even odder, satellite shows that the massive second wave of the storm got here --- and immediately began breaking up, starting somewhere over the home of a well known local conjuror.
As they say, thank the lord and the Indian medicine men! We may be the only people for miles around with electric and tolerable temps!
And what better to talk about when catastrophe threatens than food? Especially exotic food - something like India Indian food.
Because thanks to Madhur Jaffrey and Shanta Nimbark Sacharoff, I've been transformed into a virtual whirling dervish of Indian cooking.
And I've discovered this extraordinarily flavorful, diverse and healthy cuisine is easy to make. Really.
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