Reddit reviews My Two Souths: Blending the Flavors of India into a Southern Kitchen

This cookbook is by a woman that grew up in southern Indian and immigrated to Georgia. There are a lot of crossover recipes, but the two that seem the most accessible to me are vindaloo with cardamom cornbread (in place of naan) and kerala-style fried chicken with cardamom waffles and chile-infused syrup. There are a lot of seafood recipes in here too, and I'm eager to try just about all of them. I think it's $20 well spent, myself.

I recently tried her mint masala (from the mint masala roast chicken) on braised pork shoulder. The flavor is good, but I would modify it to include slightly less liquid for braising. (I would also include less lime juice based on personal preference.) Instead of a garlic bulb halved around the equator with a fennel bulb, I just put extra garlic in the mint-serrano paste and threw some fennel seeds in the braising liquid at the last minute before I put it in the oven. *I mention this not because it's a crossover but because it's evidence that the author has gûd shit.

I've never been to one, but if you have a population of Sikhs in your area I'd ask one about it. Or just ask them where they eat as they will know where to go and what to get. Everyone loves talking about food and giving restaurant recommendations.

I go to a local Indian place that serves mainly South Indian food, and it's all vegetarian (and they even have vegan). A lot of Indian restaurants in our area are actually Pakistani or Muslim Indian restaurants, which means that they have meat. In the state of Kerala, there are Christians, which means that they eat meat; I learned this from a cookbook, My Two Souths: Blending the Flavors of India into a Southern Kitchen.

There's a chaat cafe nearby that caters to Jains, which means that it's veggie and also garlic and onion free.

I've been eating a plant-based whole-food diet for about a year-and-a-half, so I've really learned how to find the meat-free places and dishes around town.