My favourite dish at Saravana Bhavan – those carefree days when one could sit there and have a happy meal – was a ghee roast dosa. It was crispy, and had a delicious fragrance of ghee.

On one visit, ghee pongal ($4.95), a porridge of steamed rice mashed with lentils and spices and redolent with clarified butter, deeply soothed with its hot, comforting simplicity. On another, it ...

Saravana Bhavan’s team of chefs tried to make the world’s longest dosa. ... The gigantic dosa takes shape, one ladle at a time. Ghee is drizzled on it and everything seems to be going well.

I have a weekly dosa ritual. Every Saturday, I make my way to a vegetarian restaurant for a ghee roast, vada, and filter coffee. I could have had anything — appams, puttu, or idli — but I ...