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Cream puff:
covered in caramel.

Jaggery:
unrefined sugar from cane, popular in India.

Ground spices:
clockwise from top: cinnamon, cloves, turmeric, cardamom.

Kofta:
spinach, potato and chickpea flour balls to be fried.

Vindaloo powder:
a spice mixture used in Indian cooking.

Lotus leaf:
soaked then used as a wrap.

Rice:
toasted with Sichuan peppercorns, to be ground into meal.

Tiramisu:
closeup of the pick-me-up.

Pasta:
inside a timpano before it's baked.

Pine nuts:
freshly pan-toasted.

Currants:
looming larger than actual size.

H. Dumpty:
after the fall.

Banana leaf:
unfurled.