Kaumudi Marathé teaches cooking and cooks regional Indian food at Un-Curry, her Los Angeles based cooking school and catering company (www.un-curry.com). When she’s not at the stove, she writes about food. Her food memoir is to be published in 2016.
So this year as we celebrated Diwali, I discovered that by cooking beef, I had protested food injustice, true. But hadn't I also adhered to a well-documented and ancient Indian tradition?