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Since she was 3 years old, Mariah Gladstone says, she has had a passion for food. After graduating from high school in northwest Montana, she studied environmental engineering at Columbia University ...

Indian food has a remarkable ability to make borrowed ingredients feel entirely at home. Dishes travel through trade routes, colonial encounters, migration and simple culinary curiosity, and over time ...