I've eaten many meals at The Tasting Room in Lower Parel Mumbai but this meal is special. This isn't a meal it's a catching up lunch, with one of my oldest, dearest friends who is as excited about food as I am, actually much more than I am. He's...
I enjoy food research. Usually it's just reading up on a cuisine or a particular dish. I love knowing the background, how certain dishes came to be, how they evolved etc. I love trivia and the history of some of the things I adore eating. Now I might find this...
Pune is a wonderful city. I have the fondest memories of vacationing here as a child with my family and their friends during my school days. I remember a time when the city was silent and slept through the afternoon. A time when burgers from the ever popular 'Jaws'...
This was a small article I had written for a community paper called Parsi Times. It was world egg day when I wrote this ( 12th October).Thought I'd share it on the blog. Here goes :)Who came first- the chicken or the egg? For most Parsi folks it's definitely...
All through college, my friends and I have eaten at these random obscure eatries. Hole in the wall cafes, udipi joints, veg thalis, or even road side sandwich wallas. Not your usual restaurant or cafes but one can't complain when you're in college not earning and recieve a paltry...
Dining regularly from prettily presented plates and sipping fashionable cocktails one can get a wee bit bored. It's time to go back and enjoy some wholesome filling greasy but delicious comfort food. The sort of food Masterchef Australia calls 'Dude Food' and felt it was such an...
If you're a regular patron of the Woodside Inn at Colaba this festival is legendary. You wait all year and every year, to make a minimum of 3 - 4 visit so you can sample all the burgers! This year the enthusiasm was the same if not more but...
A lot of people I know have extreme opinions of Royal China. They either love it or really don't. Hate is too strong a word but they don't enjoy their meal at all. Our palates have become accustomed to spice, oil and an Indianised Chinese at most places that...
I'm currently reading The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, about social changes in Sicilian life in the 1860's. The Prince of Salina, a Sicilian nobleman who is caught between his aristocratic life, loyalty to tradition. A time when Italy was ruled by different princely states and the...
It's been said so often that the simplest dishes are the tastiest and I completely agree. Nothing is more satisfying than using leftovers and simple ingredients to create something flavourful, and my favourite chef did just that the other night. It's so tasty that I've decided to share.We've discovered this...