British magazines, often quaintly out of date by several months, even years were a source of recipes, decorating ideas and more on plantations.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..

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..

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..

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

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..

On a coffee plantation, a planter’s wife wrote in the late 19th century, life could be “more than a little dull”, especially if one had..

Dotted across silent, grassy meadows in the northern valleys of Sikkim and the steep, cloud-covered slopes in Bhutan you find hundreds of tiny, intensely sweet..

“On Sunday evenings a great deal of noise and tumult prevailed in the back region as a result of arrack drinking, and the shrieks and..

“The plum is one of the hardiest and most easily grown of the stone fruits, and thrives well in Coonoor and Kotagiri,” wrote Francis, I.C.S,..

” 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..

“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..

“The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies” Image Credits: Nithin Sagi

“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..