This food festival seeks to revive rustic flavours of Anglo-Indian cuisine

Kumar along with Chef Vivek Bhatt revived 150 recipes as part of Colonial Indulgence food festival

Reading Bridget White Kumar’s blog and books is like stepping into a sepia-toned photograph of the Kolar Gold Fields from the 1880s, when they were owned and operated by the British mining firm, John Taylor and Sons. Later, these mines were taken over by the government in 1962, but the strong Anglo-Indian community continued to thrive in this little town in Karnataka. In fact, four generations of Kumar’s family lived and worked in the fields.

Kumar recreates images of Christmas feasts sweetened with desserts like dodol, Sunday lunches of coconut rice and minced ball curry. Today, she has moved from Kolar