In A Painful Year Of Loss, One Of The Last Great Culinary Idols Keeps On Going

Madhur Jaffrey, actor and cookbook writer, will not call herself a chef, but her cooking has changed the world. Then there’s this: “A now-famous appearance, in the ’90s, on one of Julia Child’s shows. Watching an extra-tall Julia coo and flutter, as Madhur regally goes through the instructions on making shrimp in spicy coconut sauce — as the coriander seeds hiss, and the fenugreek pop — is (thank you, YouTube!) an adventure in odd-couple gold.”