Author: Kaveri Ponnapa

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May 7, 2015

Tea and Company at the Coorg Table

It isn’t very often that I get to meet people who follow The Coorg Table®. Part of the reason is the busy lives we all..

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April 22, 2015

DAILY LUXURY

Daily Treats. Fragrant Indian roses in an antique silver bowl. Image Credits: Nithin Sagi

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April 21, 2015

A Chef Abroad

“I’d like to see the dinner menu handed to my guests before the wine list. Going to a restaurant is primarily about eating good food,..

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April 21, 2015

Other Lessons In Food History

On a mild, late winter morning, I stood beside a small food cart at Patterghati, in Hyderabad, licking the syrup that had trickled out of..

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April 5, 2015

Summer Living

March welcomed me back home from my travels with a cool, breezy –and I imagined –slightly distant and reproachful air for having gone away for..

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March 5, 2015

It’s A Small World

There’s a little store that I visit to pick up all sorts of delicious Coorg treats –homemade wines, maybe a bottle of pickle or some..

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March 3, 2015

In Conversation with Raj Vaidya for Sommelier India Magazine

Kaveri Ponnapa: You have mentioned elsewhere that there was an element of chance, a series of coincidences that led you to becoming a sommelier. Would..

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February 5, 2015

A Recipe Lost – And Found

Some food knowledge travels serenely, passing from generation to generation without any fuss. Everyone has the ingredients and instructions written down safely somewhere, or an..

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January 28, 2015

RITUALS

“a pot of tea, milk and sugar, brought to your bedroom on a tray complete with lace-edged table-cloth by a sleepy bearer long before dawn..

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