Indian-Canadians Parul and Marlon set out to run a one-month vegan, paleo Indian food pop-up restaurant in Nosara, Costa Rica after months of craving familiar flavours from home in the first year of the pandemic.
These are the conversations they recorded over the course of their journey as they tried to faithfully bring a cultural experience to their adopted home having never run a restaurant before.
There is some casual swearing in our recordings, if you're offended by that kind of thing :)
What happens when you decapitalize your time in a self-directed culinary residency with a new bestie in a foreign land?
You get Thanks Auntie, an exploration of ancestral Indian food and a series of stories that reconnects you to your memories of times past.
Food always tells a story and we...
Published 03/15/22
(Recorded on June 2, 2021)
In our first recording Parul and Marlon, talk about what inspired us to start the Thanks Auntie concept and set our container for the food residency.
We address whether we're related after getting that question A LOT!
Hint:
Marlon grew up cooking with his...
Published 03/15/22