ByPriya Alika Elias

Priya Alika Elias is a lawyer who lives in Boston. She enjoys B-movies, looking at pictures of pugs, and tweeting @thewordy.

  1. Spicy

    My first week in America, I poured half a bottle of hot sauce into my food. "Wow," said my dining companion, a girl from Connecticut who rode on the equestrian team. "I can tell you're not from here." I laughed. "Because I like hot sauce?" "No, but you just put so much of it into your food - I like my food much more delicately seasoned than that. That's why I can't handle curry. It's…

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