And finally: it’s good to see a cookbook that recognises the importance of restaurant dishes but is focused on the best Indian dishes; the ones we eat at home every day.

And so travel for me now is a foodie adventure. Nearly everywhere I go, I try and eat the local food, even in places where I don’t speak the local language and nobody speaks a word of English.

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Each time I post a picture of the idlis I enjoy for breakfast I get bemused responses from many North Indians who cannot figure out why anyone would like idlis so much. In Anderson’s case, his ...

It is a measure of how polarised our discourse — and much of our society perhaps — has become that the controversy over the Netflix series about the IC 814 hijacking has followed predictably ...

Do you still talk about diets? Read diet books? Watch diet videos? Go to celebrity dieticians? Look for low-fat products at the grocery shop or when you are ordering online? I am guessing you do all ...

Do you know where the kulcha originated? If the answer is no, then relax. Nobody really does. All the usual suspects have often been cited. The kulcha may be named after a Persian biscuit which has a ...

Why have people in the West got so fat over the last three decades that obesity is now a major public health problem? Over the years, various explanations have been offered. One early culprit was ...

The first time I had an authentic Peking Duck in India was at the Great Wall restaurant at the Leela Palace in Mumbai twenty years ago. I was having lunch with Captain CP Krishnan Nair, the Leela ...

Let’s start with a little imagining. A Bangladeshi enters India illegally. He ends up in Delhi and though he speaks very little Hindi and does not know how to interpret road signs, finds a job as a ...