From poffertjes to perad and pepper water

"I used to be very possessive of my recipes. I didn't want to give them away until a senior chef told me, "Listen, even if you give the recipe, everybody's hand is different; it will not be the same." Then, as time went on, I said, actually, some of these recipes should be preserved and if my children are not going to carry it on then at least other people in the community should know about them. Some of the things that I ate as a child have been totally forgotten. That's when I decided to start writing this book" - Crescentia Scolt Fernandes, author, Tale of Two Kitchens, Talks to Manjula Narayan about the similarities between the Cochin Anglo Indian food of her family and the Goan food of her husband's, the Dutch, Portuguese and, of course, Malayali influences on the food she ate as a child, memories of Vypin island in the mid-20th century, the lost Creole that her parents spoke, and how she and her husband ran the highly successful Bernardo's, the only authentic Goan restaurant in the National Capital Region.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices