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A desi twist on the feast: Christmas cooking, our way
Content creator Madhura Desai’s reel showcases a community that has finally decided that “American enough” doesn’t have to mean “tasteless.”
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Pallavi Mehra - Thu, 25, Dec 2025
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Madhura Desai / @thedesidesai
For the first generation of Indian immigrants, the Christmas roast was often a badge of assimilation — a culinary effort to prove they had successfully woven themselves into the American fabric. It meant dry turkeys and canned cranberry sauce, served more out of obligation than appetite.
But today, their children and grandchildren are leading a delicious rebellion. No longer satisfied to leave their heritage at the kitchen door, a new generation of Indian Americans is reclaiming the holiday table, proving that a “traditional” Christmas can look a lot more like a Goan feast than a colonial English one.
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