Kathy_Gori Profile
Kathy Gori
Join Date:
2011-12-02
About
So How Did An Italian Start Cooking Indian ? Well, I've been cooking Indian food for 20 years. A screenwriter by trade, I work at home, so trading a hot keyboard for a hot stove is just a matter of a few steps. My obsession with Indian cooking began when my sister-in-law, Elizabeth, an Indologist who'd lived and worked in India, introduced me to the intricacies of the Indian kitchen.
Thousands of hours and hundreds of dishes later, I make my own chutneys, grind my own spices and enjoy exploring the various cuisines of the sub-continent. I've cooked for some of the Dalai Lama's monks, the Director of the Delhi Museum and President Clinton's California campaign staff. I'm always learning and love to share my knowledge and love of Indian cooking with others. In addition to my writing and cooking, I was the voice of Rosemary the Telephone Operator in the series Hong Kong Phooey. I've voiced many films and commericals, winning a Clio Award, and never "dated" Don Draper. My husband/writing partner Alan Berger and I live with our Siberian Husky Patsy in Sonoma, and most recently worked on the screenplay for Chaos Theory starring Ryan Reynolds.
Thousands of hours and hundreds of dishes later, I make my own chutneys, grind my own spices and enjoy exploring the various cuisines of the sub-continent. I've cooked for some of the Dalai Lama's monks, the Director of the Delhi Museum and President Clinton's California campaign staff. I'm always learning and love to share my knowledge and love of Indian cooking with others. In addition to my writing and cooking, I was the voice of Rosemary the Telephone Operator in the series Hong Kong Phooey. I've voiced many films and commericals, winning a Clio Award, and never "dated" Don Draper. My husband/writing partner Alan Berger and I live with our Siberian Husky Patsy in Sonoma, and most recently worked on the screenplay for Chaos Theory starring Ryan Reynolds.
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Blogs Owned
1. The Colors Of Indian Cooking
A Hollywood Screenwriter, A Bollywood Kitchen
Tags: Indian food, Indian cooking, Indian recipes, Healthy Indian food
Latest Blog Posts
- Vanilla Chelan Cherry Ice Cream with Valrhona Chocolate Pearls. A Farmers' Market Special Our Farmers' Market is going strong here in Sonoma. There's always a Friday Morning Organic Market no matter what the season, but what everyone waits for every year is the kickoff of the Summer Tuesday Night Farmer's Market. That's when...
- A Virgin At The French Laundryon May 16, 2013 in gluten free The French LaundryFirst Times are never supposed to be very good. Awkward, messy, never living up to expectations, it's the reason they make so many movies about them. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Superbad, American Pie and of course this guy.First times...
- Fast Vegan Ice Cream. Summer Is Coming! Summer is coming. Growing up in San Francisco's Sunset District, those words had a bit of a different image for me than for most people.You see, Summer in The City is not hot fun, hot times or any other song lyrics. Summer In The C...
- Gems of the Farmers Market. Baby Turnips and Greens, Indian Style. LA in the 80's was the homebase of Nouvelle Cuisine. Back in the day, the less that was on the plate and the more one paid for that less was the hallmark of being an LA foodie. In the 80's everything seemed to be about blacke...
- Korma, An Indian Restaurant Comes To Your Kitchen. Now with Goat! Lately it seems as though I've been making food for large groups of people, finger foods for awards night, buffets for birthday parties. I just couldn't do anymore big crowd feeds. I was done for a while with racing around between stea...
- Old Cauliflower New Tricks. Bake your Cauliflower Like A Chicken. This is not your brain. This is your cauliflower.This is your cauliflower on Indian spices. Whoaaaaaa! Just in case there's anyone out there who doesn't know the origin of this expession or hasn't watched a "very special epi...
- Herb and Mustard Pork Loin Roast Last Sunday we threw my dad a party for his 94th birthday, and after mentioning the pork loin roast I served, I had some people ask me exactly how to do that roast. Pork loin is a pretty lean meat, and a big problem with cooking it...
- An Appetizer For Al's Big Day. The Dehydrator Finally Pays Offon Apr 9, 2013 in sun dried tomatoes mozzarella saladI don't exactly remember where I first saw a dehydrator advertised. It was either on a Late Night TV infomerical, the kind of show where they feature stuff "Not Sold In Stores", such as Pilates machines that hook onto the doorknob,...
- Tasty Little Gujia, Holi Treats Great For Any Holiday Table. Baked Not Fried The last few weeks I've been feeling sort of like a car that's been up on blocks getting a full makeover in someone's driveway. In short I've been getting all the medical work/checkups/tests/etc done that I've neglected for...
- Thandai, The Holi Classic Treat, Perfect For Your Holiday Table Spring is here. No matter what the weather is like outside, pay no attention to the snow behind the curtain. It's officially spring. The calendar says so. I mean the H&R Block commercials are practically running back to back. This is...
- Where I've been...on Mar 27, 2013For the last week I've not been cooking. What's been going on is this. I had a bit of a health scare which I didn't want to get into. It started about a month and a half ago, when I had some tests which had some strange results. Si...
- Sweet, Delicious Apple Halwa. Gluten Free. It's been awhile since my last post. First, I spent a week making soup for Alan who was recovering from a messy cold, and then I had more dental surgery. It seems I had a screw loose. No big news to most who know me. However, it wa...
- Easy Minestrone aka Sick Man Soupon Mar 7, 2013It's not quite gotten back to normal around here since Frans' been gone. Swept up in all the stuff that comes after the loss of a parent, mainly taking care of my father Al, I find myself suddenly the mother of a senior citizen tee...
- Chocolate and Mint. Mousse for the Masseson Feb 28, 2013 in chocolate mint mousse CocoaPlanet Mousse gluten free dessert Marx Foods chocolate mousseThis last weekend was Oscar weekend or as it's known around our house, The Hollywood Super Bowl. For years, even when I was a little kid, the whole family would park itself in front of the Teevee to watch the dresses, the glamour and all...
- Finger Foods For Awards Nighton Feb 21, 2013 in baked donuts gluten free desserts lamb momo Cocoa Planet potato fritters gluten free spring rollsThis is it. Our big weekend. Others pig out over the Superbowl, but around our house it's always been the Academy Awards, and yes the Golden Globes too, but Golden Globes night does not involve the wearing of a plastic tiara. ...
- When Company Shows Up, Fast Snacks Do The Job If it hasn't been crazy enough around here, one of our best friends from LA showed up. He was doing some workat Pixar and so decided to come up to Sonoma for the long weekend. Any visit usually brings a wave of cooking, but since we've h...
- Marx Foods Says: "It's Easy Being Green." Cardamom Bamboo Rice Mousse There are a lot of green foods. Greens for one. Spinach, kale, chard. Then there are all the fruits and vegetables, from peas to pears, apples to mangoes, and of course Kermit the Frog. Green however is not something I'd norm...
- Curried Peanut Soup I haven't been doing a lot of cooking in the last month. Dealing with family matters and my moms' death have kept Alan and me running. Of course to say that I've been eating well would be a joke. Meals have been grabbed on the run ...
- Thanks To Everyoneon Feb 5, 2013Alan and I are extremely grateful for all the messages of support we've gotten over the last weeks and months of Fran's illness. While we will all miss her, it's hard to be sad for someone who is willing, eager, and content t...
- RIP Franon Jan 28, 201311/22/22 - 01/26/13...
