{"id":217946,"date":"2010-01-21T07:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2010-01-21T07:00:47","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T12:00:47","slug":"another-visit-to-kusum-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217946","title":{"rendered":"Another visit to Kusum Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2160\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 279px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2160\" title=\"kusumpeas\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/01\/kusumpeas2.jpg\" alt=\"kusumpeas\" width=\"269\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackeyed pea curry<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over the weekend I had a meal from the tired Indian buffet at <strong>Bay Leaves<\/strong> restaurant on Lawrenceville Highway in Decatur. It was&#8230;<em>depressing<\/em>. I chewed on my rubbery tandoori chicken wings, pulled limp cucumbers from the salad and ate what I needed to fill my stomach. Some rice, chickpeas, chicken tikka masala, pappadums and chutney&#8230;enough.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about sad Indian food that is the saddest food of all. It is the food equivalent of a bad recording of an old Leadbelly ballad played on a scratchy 1970&#8217;s school phonograph for a roomful of children who aren&#8217;t listening. It sings a fiery song that has been tamed through apathy and neglect.<\/p>\n<p>And so I needed good Indian food to take the flavor out of my mind. The other day I was picking up my car from the shop in Decatur&#8217;s Indian restaurant row when I drove by <strong>Kusum Foods<\/strong> and remembered <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/2009\/10\/20\/new-gujarati-spot-in-decatur\/\">enjoying it soon after it opened in October<\/a>. I ordered a quick meal to go and was really happy with the Styrofoam &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackeyed pea curry Over the weekend I had a meal from the tired Indian buffet at Bay Leaves restaurant on Lawrenceville Highway in Decatur. It was&#8230;depressing. I chewed on my rubbery tandoori chicken wings, pulled limp cucumbers from the salad and ate what I needed to fill my stomach. Some rice, chickpeas, chicken tikka masala, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}