Nutty eggplant salad with tomatoes & herbs (v, gf)

This Sunday’s essay is about mixing ingredients with different cultural histories, and this recipe is a good example. It happened by chance. I was on a trip with some Indian friends who made us all dosas with coconut-peanut chutney (coconut plus peanut — already considered to be an unforgivable combination by my friend Sonali). By the end of the weekend…