Books, Food & Music: The three things that truly brought us together and cemented the bond of our friendship!
For the past year and half, we have been penning down our thoughts about the books that we devoured, hated, loved and retched. To say that we got an heartwarming response for our reviews would be an understatement. For us humble girls from a unexciting background, Readers' Muse has been a great achievement. We never imagined to get about 16,000 hits over a year. We never had a hard fast target or a marketing plan to publicize or monetize our blog. Yet we managed to achieve the brand name that we are today. We attribute this success to all the writers, publishers,publicists and most importantly, our followers for supporting us tremendously. Thank you folks!
This immense response inspired us to give more to our followers. My Co-Blogger and the extraordinary writer, Dhivya, wanted to diversify and write about the food that we loved. I was a bit apprehensive and turned down her brilliant idea initially. After days of mulling and debating over it, I decided she was right after all and La! We have our brand new food & music column - Food & Music : Notre Second Amour - Translating to Our second love. Indeed food & music are our second love (The first obviously being books!).
Given that it's festival season in India here, we decided to kick start our column with the very well written ( and mouth watering) article featuring the secret of cooking "a perfect" Sweet Pongal/Chakkara Pongal ( A traditional south Indian dish commonly cooked as an offering to appease gods and celebrate harvest) by Dhivya (The capable cook!).
Keep a tab on this column to stumble upon such wonderful recipes and a round up of brilliant music that we enjoyed.
Happy Reading!
I have to come back when I'm a little less stressed out and look at your Indian recipes. My husband and I love Indian and Pakistani food and, luckily, here in Berkeley, we have several good restaurants. That's partly why I set one of the scenes in Hello, My Love at an Indian restaurant. As a kind of homage to some of the places where we've had our taste buds teased and duly rewarded.
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