Smoothie madness
There was a time when I was completely, unapologetically obsessed with my green smoothie . Not the trendy Instagram kind with açaí and granola on top no, this was a serious, no-nonsense concoction prescribed by Dr. Pramod Tripathi, a famous diabetologist from Pune. I was drinking it twice a day, at 6 am and 6 pm, with the kind of discipline I had never applied to anything else in my life, including sleep. In my second year of the diet, work threw a curveball I had to travel to the USA for two weeks. Now, a normal person would have said, "Two weeks, cheat a little, it's fine." Not me. The smoothie had almost tropical ingredients: cinnamon powder, pepper, salt, half an apple, betel leaf, big spinach leaves, and small leaves like cilantro, mint, or curry. Not exactly the kind of thing you'd find at an airport café. I needed a blender, and I needed a plan. Turns out, all the ingredients were available in the US America, land of the free and apparently also lan...
