About Charmaine:

I cannot remember a time when I have not been interested in food. As a young child I delighted in poring over my mother’s cookbooks. I was also very interested in eating (perhaps a little too much so as my fondness for food also led me to suffer the ignominy of being a ‘fat kid’). By my early teens I was, willingly, cooking our family meals several times a week.

At age 16 I entertained the idea of being a chef. This same year I had to endure home economics classes at school. Watching my class mates create lumpy white sauce and the smell of greasy lamb-chops that permeated the classroom kitchen turned me off wanting to have anything to do with food en masse.

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Charmaine also maintains an excellent blog, written while travelling in India. It contains recipes, stories and more.

Read more at Eating India.net