SAN RAMON, CA — The Tri-Valley is celebrating its status as one of the major hubs of Indian-American culture in the United States with the Great Indian Food & Shopping Fest. The festival ...

Gene Weingarten, a Washington Post columnist, learned very quickly that making summarily dismissive comments about Indian food’s “single ingredient” will garner pushback in today’s society.

He is 56 and his author photograph seems several years out of date. The Great Indian Food Trip explores that country’s lesser-known dishes. “There are two eyes on my plate,” he writes about ...