EMA DATSHI | BHUTAN Our favourite dish in Bhutan, Ema datshi is a spicy, cheesy bit of goodness. This is the kingdom’s national dish and you can easily make it at home, even with local ingredients. The chillies in Bhutan do give great heat, but you can easily mix some dried red chillies (re-hydrated), combined […]
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Amala Bringing the World to You: Music Blog Post
As we adapt to our new circumstances, absconding into our living rooms, trading coffees for phone calls, cooking at home rather than dining out, there’s a need to connect more than ever. Music does that for me. It created a connection when my friends and I were sitting in an empty restaurant in Kutaisi, Georgia, […]
“We travel for change” | An Interview with India’s Leading Tiger Conservationist
We met with Dr Raghu Chundawat in the al fresco breeze of our Amala kitchen. He had come to talk about his lodge, the Sarai at Toria, a beautiful and rustic eco-property in Madhya Pradesh, India. But what ended up captivating us was his story, one that spans far beyond his property walls. Back in the […]
The Scoop on Hummus
Over the years I’ve collected an array of cookbooks by English-Israeli chef, Yotam Ottolenghi. They burst alive with flavour-packed dishes pulling herbs and spices from Palestine to Malaysia. Dishes like Roasted Chicken With Clementines & Arak and Mee Goreng tell stories of the world, starting and ending at different points. So it’s no wonder that […]