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..

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..

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..

Last year ended and the new one began with indulgences –and there were far too many of them –Austrian smoked ham; prawns big enough to..

Year after year, the beauty of puthari just takes my breath away. The nights are cold and clear and from the hilltops, the stars shine..

We love our feasts in Coorg. At weddings, festivals and family gatherings, not to mention innumerable other occasions when generous feasts are cooked up at..

Ranee Vijaya Kuttaiah’s table, where I have dined many times, overflows with delicious food, fascinating anecdotes and memorable conversations, fuelled by an extraordinary life lived..

Travelling on a bus on the Algarve coast between Albufeira and Faro in Portugal, I once heard a romantic legend as we drove past groves..

The last few weeks have been packed. Transatlantic flights, eating at legendary restaurants, meetings with famous chefs, food so good it was art, and wines..

If I began this post by writing: “take 4-5 dozen ripe bananas and mash them” (which is how my mother-in law’s recipe begins), you would..

This afternoon I cooked one of those effortless, classic Coorg combinations: paputtu and erachi curry. The huge bowl of curry dwindled rapidly, as we scooped..

An old and very dear friend recently tracked me down via the highways and byways of the Internet. She lives halfway across the globe, and..

Take a pair of siblings – one a freelance promotional filmmaker, the other an ex-advertising and marketing professional – throw in a cosmopolitan Air Force..