Ep. 42: LIVE Holiday Special 2020! What we're watching, reading, eating & drinking in December with Priya Giri Desai & Kanchan Koya

My dearest friends Priya, Kanchan and I had a little too much fun recording this live Zoom call where a few of you joined! We chat about holiday traditions, menus, gift ideas and of course what we are each reading, watching and listening to this December. Grab a chai or champagne and join us in this Happy Hour which was recorded live on Dec 4, 2020 with old friends and audience members joining us from all around the world!

Full conversation below, on your favorite podcast app, Spotify or iTunes and please take a second to rate us wherever you’re listening so others can find us too! (Please excuse the audio quality as everyone had a bit more background than usual.)

SHOWNOTES FOR EPISODE 42 (we covered so much I’ve probably missed some things!):

• Kanchan’s cookbook, blog & instagram

• Priya at The India Center Foundation and her documentary Lovesick now on Vimeo - a must watch!

• The Elder-fashioned cocktail recipe

• The champagne we all sampled during the call by Drappier

• Stanley Tucci’s instagram cocktail experiments

• Sbagliato cocktail recipe

• DiasporaCo spices

• Burlap & Barrel Floyd Cardoz masalas and the unusual and ‘life-changing’ Black lime and Urfa Chili

• Just Date syrup and chai caramel

• Artem Jewelry by Sadhna whose hoops I was wearing

• Design Mom’s Gifts for Teens

BOOKS WE DISCUSSED:

• Finding Mighty by Sheela Chari

• Here We Are by Aarti Shahani

• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

• Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half

• Witches of Brooklyn by Sophie Escabasse

• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

• Fauja Singh Keeps Going: The True Story of the Oldest Person to Ever Run a Marathon by Simran Jeet Singh

• Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

• After The Ecstasy The Laundry by Jack Kornfield

• Parwana: Recipes and Stories from an Afghan Kitchen by Durkhanai Ayubi

• Yotam Ottolenghi’s cookbooks

• Dishoom: The First Ever Cookbook from the Much-Loved Indian Restaurant by Shamil & Kavi Thakrar

• The Yoga of Eating

• Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself

SHOWS & FILMS:

• The Social Dilemma

• His Dark Materials

• Aarya on Hotstar

• Made in Heaven

• My Octopus Teacher

• Fantastic Fungi

• Lovesick - Priya’s fantastic documentary

PODCASTS:

• Song Exploder

• Home Cooking with Samin Nosrat and Hrishikesh Hirway

OTHER FAB GIFTS FROM PREVIOUS PODCAST GUESTS:

• Maisha Concept sustainable fashion

• Christine Chitnis’ gorgeous book Patterns of India

• Sayali Goyal’s magazine Cocoa & Jasmine

Follow us on Instagram and check out our website for more amazing guests, gift ideas!

Special thanks to Varun Dhabe, Aman Moroney and the team @ Boon Castle / Flying Carpet Productions for audio post-production engineering!