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Book Review & A Quick Weekend Lunch: Easy Indian Cooking- By Hari Nayak 26 Jan 2013 | 02:30 pm
Sometimes I cook, without any available story for it. It is just a resultant of a gut feeling that creeps in all through my system for a consistent number of hours. I slowly sense “things” about the d...
A Sweet Winter Reverie in Delhi 30 Dec 2012 | 07:00 pm
” Aap Kalkatta se ho?“-Are you from Kolkata? Asked a tall athletic man, muffled up in a colourful Hamachali shawl, a biscuit brown full sleeve sweater, from which waist below hung the remaining edges ...
The Name is Skye…The Isle of Skye 12 Nov 2012 | 12:26 am
All girls(the big and small cats!) have a fantasy dwelling around a Scottish castle. Romances have been immortalized against these backdrops in Bollywood and Hollywood can safely call it its second ho...
My Story of Durga Puja: Incantations of Favourite Foods 4 Nov 2012 | 02:30 pm
Durga Puja came and went. Although India doesn’t have an Autumn and its share of auburn leaves, this time of the year is the closest one can get to ‘Fall’. Autumn has always been homecoming and times ...
Jodhpur: The Land of Fables and Facades 7 Oct 2012 | 02:45 am
From riding on camels who love ‘street-food’, chatting up with locals who have strange stories to share, spending nights in a 300 year old haveli, heavy and romantic in its own history and charm,going...
Goa-Where Stillness meets Restlessness! 6 Sep 2012 | 05:33 pm
If I had to ever write a story about us, it would need to necessarily contain silly sweet things. Stories about being picked up 5 minutes apart on a rickety blue coloured school bus for 8 whole years....
Goan Chorizo Sausage Pulao 6 Sep 2012 | 05:25 pm
Ingredients 250gm Goan pork sausages/chorizo 1/4 tsp turmeric powder 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste 2 cups duck stock(I used a few bony pieces of the duck meat, seasoned with salt and pepper, and made a...
Fiery Hot Duck Vindaloo 6 Sep 2012 | 04:12 pm
Ingredients 2 teaspoons cumin seeds 2 teaspoons mustard seeds 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns 1/2 teaspoon fenugreek seeds 2 teaspoons minced peeled fresh ginger 2 teaspoons minced fresh garlic 1 teasp...
A Delightful Gastronomic Sin, “Per Se”! 1 Sep 2012 | 08:30 pm
There are lunches and then there are lunches that are downright sinful. “Per se”, this lunch was the epitome of a dining nirvana. Between the various functions dedicated to each table (each and every...
I’m in a “New York State of Mind”! 8 Aug 2012 | 11:44 pm
On my flight to JFK, my co-passenger on the next seat was a very serious looking Dean of a private University in Hyderabad. Not only did he disrupt and disturb me all the 9 direct hours from Brussels ...
