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<\/a><\/p>\nNira wearing Anavila\u2019s handwoven linen sari and Neelum Narang earrings<\/strong><\/p>\n Q. What\u2019s your favourite dish to make at home?<\/strong><\/p>\n A. Lately I\u2019ve been making more vegan food. I try to eat mindfully at home. Loads of vegetables, whole grain, and herbs. Zucchini, mushrooms, and red carrots in winter are my favourites<\/p>\n Q. What are you working on now?<\/strong><\/p>\n A. I\u2019m working on a book, and the process of writing the book might also turn into a show. It\u2019s called Eating Stories. When I cooked at the James Beard Foundation, we did a limited edition print of it, which we gave to all the guests there. It\u2019s a continuation of that. The stories are around food, personalities, design and art, and our relationships to food.<\/p>\n Nira wearing Neelum Narang earrings<\/strong><\/p>\n Q. Do you have a favourite restaurant in Delhi?<\/strong><\/p>\n A. I love Caf\u00e9 Lota. It\u2019s really wonderful. I also like simple stuff, like Sagar, and Carnatic Caf\u00e9 is amazing. It\u2019s so light.<\/p>\n Q. We noticed you were wearing a sari while manning your design store at the India Art Fair. We loved that. What kind of saris do you like to wear? And tell us about how you wear them, experiment with them?<\/strong><\/p>\n A. I\u2019ve been educated by Rta Kapur from the Sari School. She\u2019s taught me a lot about the unstitched garment. I live by her book, The Sari Book. So I try to wear khadi saris \u2013 they get softer every time you wash them. Kapur buys and supports a lot of craftsmen and looms across india who still use the old-school method of making saris. I also try to learn the styles of wearing saris. I don\u2019t wear a petticoat with my sari. There\u2019s a way of making the old traditions contemporary, and a way of making them your own. The sari I wore at the Art Fair, I had to run around a lot, so I tied it dhoti style \u2013 it\u2019s so comfortable.<\/p>\n Nira wearing a Raw Mango sari<\/strong><\/p>\n Q. Do you have a preference for region, pattern, or design in your saris?<\/strong><\/p>\n A. I like to do the dhoti style that leaves your legs mobile. There\u2019s another style that doesn\u2019t wrap around the lower part of the body \u2013 you can adjust it for comfort as well.<\/p>\n Q. What was your favourite among the things you tried today?<\/strong><\/p>\n A. I liked the pink Anavila sari \u2013 it\u2019s so simple and accessible, not a heavy garment that you associate with an uncomfortable experience. You don\u2019t have to be scared of adjusting it to your body, to what\u2019s flattering.<\/p>\n Shop Anavila\u2019s Handwoven Linen Saris<\/strong><\/a> Nira Kehar Chef, Writer, Curator on healthy cooking and sari drapes Nira wearing Anavila\u2019s handwoven linen sari and Neelum Narang earrings Q. What\u2019s your favourite dish to make at home? A. Lately I\u2019ve been making more vegan food. I try to eat mindfully at home. Loads of vegetables, whole grain, and herbs. Zucchini, mushrooms, and … Continue reading Nira Kehar<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogaan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogaan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogaan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogaan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogaan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogaan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogaan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogaan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ogaan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogaan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ogaan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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