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October 10, 2019

Spice Tales

Curry powder, the spice-mix associated with the British in India and their attempts to recreate the flavours of the curries that they had grown to..

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October 1, 2019

Summer Treats

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..

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September 19, 2019

Eat Warm for Afternoon Tea

“ Eat warm for afternoon tea,” wrote Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner, way back in 1888. She was talking about a freshly baked cake..

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August 3, 2019

Chinnaswamy’s “Sunday Special” Prawn Curry

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..

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July 20, 2019

Long Road Home

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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June 25, 2019

The Culinary Legacy of the Royal House of Patiala

“The pages were fragile, some of them torn. The recipes were hand written in Gurmukhi, and the measurements were mystifying. Some called for ‘masha‘ and..

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June 1, 2019

Masque

Every evening at 7.30, a heavy curtain parts at the far end of the ultra-modern Indian restaurant, Masque, and the service begins. Co-owned by Chef..

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May 18, 2019

Traveller’s Fare

Whenever we went on a picnic, there was always mor kool, wrapped up in wilted banana leaves. Never mind the more exotic, rich, dry-fried meats..

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April 21, 2019

Ritu Dalmia

Ritu Dalmia, chef-entrepreneur, currently in the process opening her eighth restaurant — her second in Milan — defies any easy compartmentalization. She opened the first..

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April 8, 2019

Cool as a Cucumber Soup

Tiny white neem flowers, exquisitely shaped and scented, looked forward to all year, barely had time to appear in their usual clouds of white and..

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April 3, 2019

On the Tuscan Trail

The mood at San Gimignano is lively at lunchtime, light streaming in through the windows that look out onto a walled courtyard garden and the..

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April 1, 2019

Capital Flavours Contemporary Japanese Cuisine at Wasabi

The toro carpaccio of 24 hour cured fatty tuna belly, smoked in cherry wood, dressed with white miso, delicately showered with shaved white and black..

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March 21, 2019

Summer Landscape

In the dry season, the hillsides are brown, the roads dusty. There is not even a hint of the lushness that will come with the..

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March 1, 2019

Meet the Chef Abhijit Saha

Chef-Entrepreneur Abhijit Saha is the creative force behind Caperberry, Fava and most recently, Rock Salt, Indian Tapas Bar and Restaurant in Bangalore. The multiple-award winning..

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February 21, 2019

Taste of Persia

The pages of Naomi Duguid’s latest cookbook, Taste of Persia, overflow with ingredients, flavours and dishes familiar to Indian readers and cooks: dried fenugreek leaves;..

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