Dear Senthil’s Kitchen family and friends: The COVID-19 outbreak has put all of us in a tight spot; the entire world is being stunned with a pandemic none of us have ever witnessed in our lifetimes. The last known pandemic of this magnitude, the Spanish Flu of 1918 infected around...

Sambar is my ULTIMATE comfort food (if I have to pick just one dish out of all dishes in the world as my favorite, I will pick sambar); sambar is also the most favorite dish for my wife and son. At our home, we eat sambar at least 4 days...

I was listening to this wonderful composition from my favorite music director Ilayaraja, “En Kanmani En Kadhali” from the movie “Chittukuruvi” while traveling to work this morning.  That song uses a concept called “counterpoint”. What is “counterpoint”, you may ask? In layman’s terms, counterpoint is defined as this: when two...