Almost everyone you speak to will tell you that the London of today is not the same as the London of ten years ago. What that ...

Then, Gujral hit on his second good idea. He needed a way to use up the leftover tandoori chicken and chicken tikka. So, he created a tomato and butter sauce and began to rehydrate the dried-out ...

But these dishes were creatures of their time. Just as Escoffier was God’s gift to the dairy and milling industries because all his dishes required cream, butter and flour, the great Indian chefs of ...

Vir Sanghvi is the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. His career straddles print, television, books and now, new media. Vir Sanghvi was born in London in 1956 and educated at Mayo College ...

Though we don’t often admit it, most Indians are always a little annoyed by the global tendency to treat our food as a cheap and cheerful ethnic cuisine. That characterisation is probably the legacy ...

Sometimes you can go weeks without encountering a good chef or a memorable meal. And sometimes, you can meet two unusual and gifted chefs within hours on the same day. Last week, in Mumbai, I met two ...

But regardless of which hot sauce you use, the chilli trend is here to stay. And ironically enough the impetus to add more ...

It took me a few months to get on the road, but I have not let the pandemic stop me from travelling. I believe it is important for our mental health to get out of the house and periodically offer ...

I don’t usually write very much about foreign policy because there are hundreds of writers (more, perhaps) who have dedicated their lives to studying Indian foreign policy and never hesitate to ...

Both Udinia, and the restaurant’s owner, Sameer Sain, had grown up on Chicken Manchurian and loved the taste. Now, they wondered: could they take this relatively recently invented, humble flavour and ...

Prannoy and I broke up Musharraf’s little love-fest with Indian editors and the breakfast ended on a sour note. So did the Agra summit itself, a little later. That was the sum total of my interactions ...

Indians have a pretty good idea of what Japan is about. We are crazy for sushi, have grown up using Japanese electronic products, are familiar with such automobile brands as Toyota, Honda and of ...