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About Us

The Modern Desi is born from the successful food blog, Just A Girl From Aamchi Mumbai.

 

Our story is rooted when i moved to Perth then Sydney Australia, for work to start an exciting new life adventure with my husband.

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A few months into living in Australia, i was diagnosed with symptoms of listlessness, lack of energy and an overall feeling of emptiness.

 

A doctor’s advice was to “start eating food that i ate while growing up” thus starting me on a culinary journey to recreate the authentic, real flavors of India that are almost unknown outside of the sub-continent . . . the food that we hear about in family stories, the grandmother recipes that have been passed down for generation's are cooked seasonally, knowing your lentils providing a holistic nourishment to body mind and soul.

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Dishes like Dhaba Dal, Labra, Dal Pakwan, Sindhi Kadhi, food that i ate back home  which are typically not found in Australia healed me and opened options to creatively express myself through cooking, writing, and photography.

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In our new chapter of our food journey

“The Modern Desi" a symbolic representation of the person, culture and product of India while living our cultural roots and balancing an evolution that has come with time, experience and my adventures in Australia.

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