Good Food A Diwali recipe to celebrate the Hindu festival of lights
Oct 17, 2025
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Celebrating Diwali, Thai roots meet Nashville soul, a soju party, yaupon as a potential coffee alternative, and green satsumas:
- Khushbu Shah shares how she celebrated Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, growing up in the Midwest, and this year's plans.
- Chef Arnold Myint, who grew up at his family’s beloved International Market & Restaurant, which introduced Thai food to Nashville, has a new book, Family Thai, that's both a primer on Thai cooking and a tribute to the flavors he inherited from his mother.
- At Orion Bar in Brooklyn, Irene Yoo and her husband, Nick, get playful with soju and upend Korean alcohol traditions.
- How expensive does coffee need to get before we start looking for alternatives?
- Writer KC Hysmith considers yaupon, the only caffeinated plant grown in North America, for its potential as a coffee alternative.
- Chef Miles Thompson shops for green satsumas at the farmers market.
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