My sister emailed my wife a diet that is supposed to “shrink” the stomach through such devices as boiling turmeric in water along with enough spices to remind you of golgappa water, but wisely I kept my observations to myself. “I lost five kilos in a week,” my sister told her. “She hides it well,” my wife remarked to me later, but she clearly weighed in the benefits because she had the kitchen staff weighing in with measures of cumin and asafoetida and quantities of ginger shavings and barley hops. It seemed quite unappetising but when on the very next
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