This blog is written by Natasha Thambirajah, a public servant by day, writer and home cook by night. I have spent a fair bit of time travelling around the world, sampling food and historic sites.
Two years ago, I returned to the west coast of Canada after living in India and elsewhere in Canada. I was born in Victoria to Sri Lankan Tamil parents who grew up in Malaysia. Belonging to a family of immigrants several times over has given me a taste for nomadism, languages, and, reluctantly, domestic experiments.
I'm also a great lover of food: iddli with takkali tokku from India, a street-hawker style kuih teow in Malaysia, a steaming bowl of Saigon-style phở or a plate of gado gado in Indonesia. I'm known to get unreasonably excited about a handful of perfectly purple Russian tomatoes, or a newly poured jar of jewel-toned fruit jelly. There's catharsis for the nomad's soul in using the kitchen for international domestic experiments.
This blog began, like others before mine, out of culinary tests designed to exhaust the hundreds of New York Times and Los Angeles Times recipes I emailed to myself, as well as any number of other recipes picked up from books, blogs and friends. This blog was also born out of the collection of pictures of food taken by friends that have since been affectionately dubbed as "food porn."
You can reach me at Luscious Domestic, check out my Luscious Domestic page on Facebook, or follow me on Twitter.
