A friend recently put up a post on FB (where else?) asking everyone about their comfort food… Now, comfort food in that string of comments was decribed as: “foods that make you go uuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... and make you tingle!!”; “things that remind one of childhood” and “lift-me-up foods”. So now you all have an idea of…
Teaching the children
Here's a poem I wrote for my daughter's recitation competition at school. It's very basic and kiddie, of course... but my attempt was to introduce the concept of what she needs to eat and what not. And of course, knowing her curious nature, I knew there would be lots of questions!! So now she knows…
Icons
Every city has a few iconic places to eat – restaurant being too pretentious a term for some of them – that are part of the city’s social and cultural history. It is not only about the food they serve – which is usually fantastic – but about the ambience and quirks of the place.…
The Nizam from New Market…
So why is this about New Market and Nizams? Because this one is about wafting memories that have since floated down from the legendary open market in Kolkata, right down to the suburbaness that is Andheri West. This one is about the memory of singing along with Shahrukh in his Main Koi Aisa Geet Gaoon,…
Question: Zaike ka Safar
A few months ago, one of my friends suggested taking an epicurean adventure across India - he referred to it as Zaike ka Safar. Now, we didn't discuss the spots we'd hit, but somehow I couldn't get the idea out of my mind and I would keep thinking about the idea every once in a…
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