Indian-American Chefs Cook and Reflect on Being “Brown in the South”

A few weeks ago, 160 people gathered at Meherwan Irani’s restaurant, Chai Pani, in Decatur, Ga., for dinner and a conversation about what it means to connect South Asia to the American South. The room hummed as chefs and industry professionals (like Raleigh’s Ashley Christensen and New Orleans’ Kelly Fields) who had flown in for the event noshed on crispy pani puri and...