When I was a student at art college in England, I lived with 6 other girls in a rented house in my second year. We were all on the same course, (fine art), all roughly the same age and all from the UK. I don't need to illustrate the dramas that happened between us all, I'm sure you can imagine.
One girl, Kali, was of Indian descent. She cooked authentic vegetarian Indian food with spices and ingredients that her mum had either sent through the post or packed her off with. Perhaps through her I received more education than at college. She taught us how to make chapatis with her long, green rolling pin, simple Indian curries with whole spices like cumin and coriander seeds and how to add spices to British standards like beans on toast.
