Bigger India
Why Indian food doesn’t get its due in the U.S.
Possibly because cooking Indian at home is more than just food.
An adventurous cook navigating the aisles of a typical supermarket in Middle America sails past shelf after shelf of Latin American ingredients, an array of Chinese sauces, Thai noodles and a continent of European cheeses in a sea of Italian olive oils. The necessities of Indian home cooking are mostly not there.
The culinary gap extends to restaurants and take-out.