While in our part of the world Diwali is not a five-day celebration, we can pretend it is so as to have a little more sweetness by making this absolutely delicious Semolina Parsad. Here’s the thing: I ...

All morning I was nervous. Diwali was approaching and I wanted to write a column about festival foods – my first such column. I had reached out to my cousin Doris in Canada for a Parsad recipe and a ...