famous Indian dishes in the world never to be cooked in Indian home kitchens, then there must surely be a vegetarian candidate for the same category. I think I have found it: it is the black dal so ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago at HICSA, India’s most important hotel investment conference, Manav Thadani, who runs HVS, the organisation behind HICSA, presented Ajit Kerkar with a lifetime achievement award.

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 ...

His wife has, famously, described him as a ‘crisis junkie’, but that’s not how Nusli Wadia likes to think of himself. He frowns a little when I remind him of the description and says, ‘ That’s very ...

When we talk about the geniuses of Indian publishing and write about the magazine boom, there is one name that rarely comes up. And yet, in my view, there is nobody who has been more influential in ...

all day and served every kind of cuisine. In Bombay, such restaurants lined both sides of Churchgate Street. In Delhi, they were scattered all over Connaught Place. If you went to Gaylord in Bombay ...

If I asked you to name the most famous north Indian restaurant in the world, my guess is that you would pick the obvious contender: Bukhara. And, by and large, most people would agree with you. It’s ...

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 ...

I assume that, along with the rest of the English-speaking world, you saw the telecast of the Oscars at the end of February. Even if you didn’t catch the whole telecast, you probably saw clips from ...

This piece is dedicated to different techniques for making risotto. If you have no interest in risotto then you may want to turn the page. On the other hand, I suggest that you pause a while. Risotto ...

A few weeks ago, the Saturday magazine of Business Standard ran a perceptive story on India’s best chefs. It also asked top chefs to pick their own favourites. And while the usual suspects came up ...