Setting up a new kitchen in a new country
If you are like me, you moved to London or Europe after your marriage, found yourself in a strange country where every thing costs 10 times what it does in India and had the task of setting up a kitchen, knowing you may have to throw/give away stuff when you leave/move, but obviously of decent quality. When I started out and I realized how expensive it was, I decided to stop and make do with whatever containers etc I could find - one of my friends confided she used old yougurt pots as containers untli she re-discovered pearlpet at an Indian store(according to her, finding Pearlpet drove her to Nirvana). I saved Minute Maid juice bottles and jam bottles. Anyways, this list can be handy for others just starting it out. London stores are expensive. So find an Indian store- Wembley is a good place to start - The Poppat store is great, it has everything at affordable prices(familiarity is comforting?). IKEA is another good place. Rice: varieties Ponni, Sona Masoori for daily cooking