Chaat Is More Than the Sum of Its Many Flavors
The chef Maneet Chauhan likes to think of chaat as an emotion. A single bite can be jolting, pucker-inducing and refreshing all at once, balancing sweet with salty, tangy with spicy, crunchy with creamy, demanding you come back for more. The word chaat, she points out, is derived from the verb chaatna, “to lick” in…
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