Stephane Derenoncourt, regarded by some as “the most sensitive vinefier in the whole of Bordeaux” was in Bangalore in July. The legendary winemaker is associated..
Le nozze di Figaro, the most brilliant of comic operas, is a masterpiece of harmony, structure, musical richness and Mozart’s genius. Bangalore had the opportunity..
Captivated like so many others, by the beauty, artistry and perfection of Japanese cuisine, its uncompromising freshness of ingredients and oneness with the rhythm of..
Abida Rasheed and I quickly discover that we share twin passions for food and traditional Indian textiles. She comments appreciatively on the fabric I’m wearing,..
Compelled by the raw poetry of Murali’s dazzling heliconias, clusters of surreal pink coconuts, glistening lotuses thrusting out of primeval waters, and the luminous plumage..
The venerable Mavalli Tiffin Rooms, pure vegetarian, would blanch at the thought that their name, an institution in the Indian culinary world, carries shades of..
Imagine a kitchen bereft of spice. A life without that round masala dabba, a painters palette of aromatic colours and textures – provocative red chilies,..
“Cookbooks,” declared Janet Street- Porter famously, “are the new porn.” She could have meant the dangerously attractive Nigella Lawson, poised to bite into a chicken..