Table Talk: Comfort foods and holiday traditions
Certain dishes mark the season, and many holidays would feel incomplete without them. (Knape/Getty Images Signature)
Ellen Chamberlain
Ellen Chamberlain is a global citizen who is happy to call Memphis her forever home. The Michigan native has worked in media for nearly 25 years as a radio broadcaster, journalist and ghostwriter. As The Daily Memphian’s food and restaurant writer, she gives readers inside perspectives of their favorite restaurants and the people behind them, suggestions for the best bites around town and the latest food news from in and around Shelby County.
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’Tis the season for winter holidays. The cornerstone of any cultural celebration is food. Certain dishes mark the season, and many of our holidays would feel incomplete without them.
For some Indian Memphians, Diwali is observed in October or November depending on that year’s lunisolar calendar. Anup Samutrala, one of the workers at Social Desiii in Collierville, said he typically thinks of peda, a milk-based sweet usually spiced with cardamom, saffron or pistachio. It’s almost like an Indian milk-fudge — dense, fragrant and rich with warm, cozy Indian spices.
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