I knew the time would come when there would be something on which we’d disagree, and that time is now. (I’d say “respectfully” disagree, but the last time I used that adverb the recipient left HO in a huff after PMing me that it was because of my post. I decided that it was the “respectful” that had been the tipping point.)
Let me mildly say that Christina’s version of kulfi is not what’s generally called kulfi in India in that it is not made with properly reduced milk. It is very cardamom-y, as you observe, and somewhat gritty with chopped nuts. To me it’s palatable – if I don’t think of it as “kulfi”. Oddly, they do know what “proper” kulfi is. Over a decade ago they supplied kulfi to a chai and snack shop in Arlington Center, and that version was the genuine article. But that shop has closed and with it that kulfi died.
There were reports last year that “genuine kulfi” was available locally, but I have not verified. I can’t off-hand think of a local restaurant that now offers it, but I haven’t eaten in at an Indian restaurant in three years.
