Word: vinod
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Like many of the other Indian restaurant owners in the area, Shikha and Vinod Kapoor are from northern Indian, and previously the restaurant concentrated on the rich, creamy sauces and subtle spicing of that region. Now the menu, with recipes researched and developed by Shikha Kapoor, features the crepe-like dosas of southern Indian, mustard-flavored potatoes from central India, a lamb dish with apricots from Bombay. The tandoor-baked foods of northern India are also still prominent on the menu...
Other foods done in the tandoori were also appealing. Shrimp, tangy from its marinade and blushed bright red from the tandoor, was nonetheless moist inside. Trout, Vinod Kapoor said, baked in the coolest of the three tandoor ovens, tasted quite wonderful, as thought it had been smoked. The spicing on this Kashmiri dish was subtle, just a hint of curry, possibly of cardamom, and the slightly crisped flesh tender...
...Vinod Kapoor, owner of the Galleria Mall restaurant, said the fire was caused by a "short circuit in the exhaust fan's motor." He said that the fire occurred immediately after the cooks turned on the fan yesterday morning...
...Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men); Sonny Mehta, editor of the distinguished Knopf book- publishing house; and filmmaker Wayne Wang (Dim Sum). Consider also: Chang- Lin Tien, the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley; Paul Terasaki, a UCLA professor of surgery who developed tissue typing for organ transplants; and Vinod Khosla, one of the founding partners of the computer- workstation manufacturer Sun Microsystems...