In addition to the citizens of Kolhapur’s mastery at hammering out hand-stitched, open-toed leather slippers and sandals, they stew some incredible curries featuring local coconuts, mangoes (in season), and complexly layered spice blends made with exotic ingredients like dagad phool, or stone flower. (Even to Indians this spice is relatively unknown beyond its provincial boundaries. It is a blackish-purple, mosslike ingredient, technically a lichen, that is found on stones. It is nor