The overwhelming diversity of expression in aesthetics and form in Indian craft comes from centuries of responses to the cultural, utilitarian, sacred, ritual, historic and..
In a conversation about the cuisine of Rajasthan, it’s impossible to ignore several centuries of Rajput history, or Chef Akshraj Jodha’s ancestry that stretches back..
Julia Komp interacts continuously with the team of chefs at Ottimo, ITC Gardenia, Bengaluru, issuing a steady stream of instructions, accentuated by emphatic nods and..
British magazines, often quaintly out of date by several months, even years were a source of recipes, decorating ideas and more on plantations. This is..
The pantry cupboard in plantation homes always held neat piles of tinned foods and fruits to tide over emergencies and the heavy monsoons, when mildew..
It was a conversation with a friend’s octogenarian mother — a conversation that wandered back and forth, expanded and contracted over a couple of visits..
Leaving behind the elegant sweep of the Venetian harbour and old lighthouse, we follow cobbled lanes winding down narrow streets, all golden stone, overhung with..
Ice creams and chilled desserts continued to be something of a luxury and novelty in plantation homes for a long time after refrigeration became easily..
Plantation cooks belonged to a special tribe, now almost extinct. Eccentric, temperamental, usually drunk on arrack on market days, they had a distressing tendency to..
Writing about food has led to many unusual, enriching conversations, valuable friendships that I would never have made in the normal course of my life,..
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