When mother-daughter duo Natasha and Veera Almeida invite us to a wedding in Vasai’s Giriz Village this weekend, it comes with a delicious twist — it’s all the food, without the actual wedding.

It's true what they say about food. It can take you places. On the 11.06 am fast from Bandra, we set out for Vasai. Across verdant expanse of green and a flurry of catenaries, distant hillocks ...