By Nisha Vedi Pawar @lovelaughmirch & online at: lovelaughmirch.com A few weeks ago I attended New York City’s Food & Wine Festival’s Grand Tasting. The Grand Tasting is the grand finale of the 3-day food and wine festival with vendors, cooking demonstrations, food tastings, wine samplings and more. If I

By Salima Jivraj @halal_foodie & online at halalfoodie.ca It’s been just over a week since hurricane Sandy hit the East coast of the United States. She hit hard and made her presence known by leaving behind destruction, floods, electrical outages and displaced families.   I don’t celebrate Diwali and was