I Categories The Coorg Table February 9, 2016 In Search of a Gathering Not so long ago, at a Coorg wedding, you could be fairly sure of whom you would meet and what you would eat. With a..
E Categories Food February 5, 2016 Eating Our Way Into The 21st Century The weaver ant chutney comes first. There is no shock of multiple limbs, eyes and wings piled up on the plate. It is sour, fresh..
T Categories Plantation Style December 26, 2015 THE PLANTER’S CHAIR ” It was difficult to conceive the state of isolation in which we lived…so rare indeed was a visit from a neighbour that, when one..
T Categories The Coorg Table December 24, 2015 Travels with Guavas Just how two friendly guava trees came to be in my grandparents’ backyard in Coorg, I am not sure –they were a very long way..
H Categories The Coorg Table November 23, 2015 Harvests to Share This year, I’ve been collecting images of putharis long past from some of my friends, trying to capture the essence of this festival that touches..
F Categories The Coorg Table October 21, 2015 Fish Fry Nights Some evenings, everything comes tumbling together in a way that is so perfect you couldn’t replicate it if you planned for months. Cool, crisp weather,..
F Categories Plantation Style October 20, 2015 FRAGMENTS OF A DAY “Where is beauty to be found?… in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single..
M Categories Wine September 22, 2015 Merchants of Taste “We help people learn about wine. We offer a basic education on what a customer is drinking, how to choose and appreciate wines.” With 16..
A Categories The Coorg Table September 18, 2015 A Little More Than Just A Table A friend recently asked me why ‘The Coorg Table®’? Why had I chosen the name for my blog, she asked, when there was so much..
S Categories Plantation Style September 14, 2015 SCATTERED LEAVES “The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies” Image Credits: Nithin Sagi
P Categories Plantation Style August 22, 2015 Plantation Style Ice Cream “I always knew when we were going to have ice-cream because my mother would send the bearer down to the ice supplier, and he would..
S Categories The Coorg Table August 5, 2015 Sometimes You Get The Blues If Coorg were a season, she would be the monsoon. The land sparkles and welcomes –for most of the year –but when the rains come..
M Categories The Coorg Table July 19, 2015 Mango Pickle and Fine Rice Locked away in my head are not quite faded images of roaming a mango orchard under the cool, deep shade of a spreading canopy, the..
T Categories Plantation Style July 18, 2015 THE USEFULNESS OF LILLIES Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”—John Ruskin Image Credits: Nithin Sagi
