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With the ever growing popularity of global food in India many countries have made efforts in popularizing their cuisine. This trend started with Chile promoting Chilean wine and food through its annual festivals in Mumbai and Delhi, and recently the Latin American countries got together to showca…
Progressive Indian Cuisine, molecular cooking, deconstructive cooking, call it what you will. The fact remains that when you pop the alluring little bite size portions of Chef Gaggan Anand’s innovative creations in your mouth, there is a sensational explosion of flavours, so tantalizing and so se…
A few days back when I braved the rains to visit Intercontinental at Marine drive I came away a petulant hungry child. This time around I got romanced, intrigued, allured, loved and satiated. I felt young and excited. My visit to Koh for the Sriracha festival that runs upto 7th September, more th…
Recently The Westin Mumbai Garden City located at Goregaon area of Mumbai held a very interesting event where kids and their parents were invite to showcase the new nutritious and healthy offerings of their menu which they are planning to serve out to the business traveler on the move. The follow…
When a meal transports you straight to a little town in south-eastern Tamil Nadu, especially when it is a cuisine which has been brought back from the verge of extinction, to culinary limelight, you know it is a moment to be savoured. I encountered such a moment at The Park hotel, where I had gone…
I was called for a bloggers’ meet at the spacious home of Swedish Consul General Fredrika Ornbrant to sample some of the authentic Swedish dishes that she had made herself. My experience of bloggers’ meet has been a series of random incidents ranging from unpleasant to hilariously funny. I have c…
When a chef of the stature of Veena Arora conducts a culinary session on Healthy Thai Recipes, one can rest assured that it is going to be a full house. Those of you for whom the name does not ring a bell, Chef Veena Arora is the person behind the success of the iconic Spice…
The Westin, Gurgaon has been organizing a culinary academy where the hotel chefs, through an interactive session, have been teaching 4-5 dishes of different cuisines to people. This was the first time that they had a kid’s special cooking session as part of the newly launched Westin Eat Well Kids…
A few years back I had helped a close friend with a presentation on wines and the research took us to understand that wine was called the drink of the gods “Sura” and those who didn’t drink Sura were obviously known as “Asuras”! Over the years, archaic laws, asinine labelling regulations, marketi…
If you like food or go a step ahead and call yourself a ‘foodie’ but don’t watch MasterChef – especially the original Australian version – then in the eyes of many you may have committed a grave crime. Since the first season, this show has been a run-away hit and inspired many chefs and home…
When I stepped out of hotel to visit the Mosque Square on M M Road in Bangalore, the foodie inside me was super excited. Reason was to be savouring camel meat once again after a very long time. The memory lane took me back to my school days when on Eid I got to taste…
The origin of sausages can be credited to man´s necessity for preserving food in ancient times when there was no refrigeration. In those days the best way to preserve meat was to salt (Cure) it. The name, sausage therefore, was derived from the latin word ´salsus ´meaning “salted” The sausage as…
