But let’s give the humble goat the credit it rarely receives. Even in medieval Muslim courts where there was no bar on eating beef, goat was always preferred by kings, nobles and gourmets. There are ...

Secularism may be a tired, washed out concept in much of India but in Mamata’s Bengal it still reigns in all its majesty. For ...

So the Brits will use it for such dishes as a Lancashire Hot Pot which is a mutton and potato stew. The French will call a ...

Himanshu is Manish’s most successful disciple but Indian restaurants all over the world have former Manish protégés in the ...

If you have been following the furore over the price of tomatoes, you will note that reporters and political analysts often refer to tomatoes as a basic staple of Indian cooking and the food of the ...

It’s both puzzling and a little gratifying. Whenever you mention dosas to knowledgeable foodies, they look at you a little superiorly and ask, “But do you like benne dosa?” A new restaurant serving ...

The system is so powerfully tilted against the innocent citizen and so favourable to the malign or corrupt police or revenue ...

What a year in food it’s been! It’s been a year of triumphs. A year of recovery. It’s almost as though the pandemic never happened. Indian restaurants have shone abroad. And within the country, our ...

At no time in our recent history has there been so much anger over harassment and corruption by government officials, bureaucrats and police/customs/enforcement ...

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 ...

I have seen so many Indians travelling abroad this season that I reckon we form a huge source of income for restaurant owners all over the world. Unfortunately, like most tourists, we don’t always ...

I missed the most high-profile hotel opening of the year (of the decade, perhaps) because I had committed to speak at the Jaipur Literary Festival and the dates clashed. But the opening of Atlantis ...