Sweet Bananas with Chiles and Cumin

Swetal Sindhvad’s father was a hardworking man from a not-so-prosperous background in Ahmedabad, in northwestern India. He was blessed with a supportive wife and beautiful children, and he worked in numerous jobs in unhygienic conditions so that his family would have a successful life—a life that he made possible when he immigrated to the United States. Swetal talks warmly about her father—and about this banana curry, which her father made whenever he had to fend for himsel