Priya Krishna’s "Indian-ish" Recipes

Food history sizzles on stage at the National Museum of American History. Guest chef Priya Kirshna will share stories and recipes from her Indian American childhood, focusing on how her mother’s improvisational cooking represents the ingenuity of migrant home cooks in America. Chef Krishna’s mother came to the United States from New Delhi and maintained strong sensory memories of the foods from her homeland. Once in America, she attempted to recreate those dishes, but did not have easy access to their key ingredients. Like many new migrants, she improvised. Chef Krishna chronicles her mother’s inventive cooking in her new cookbook: Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family and will be signing copies of her book after the demonstration. The demonstration begins at 1:00 p.m.