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…
ZEST (Now Setz)
It was a last minute decision to head to ZEST to celebrate my mum’s birthday last night. We had all along planned to go to the adjoining DLF Mall, Vasant Kunj for a simpler meal, but I remembered at the last moment this super fancy place that had opened up to great acclaim and hype,…
Be creative to engage … kids and adults!
We had a Diwali Mela in office last Nov. It's an annual do, and we try to get as many people involved in it. The proceeds (minus cost to the person) all go to charity. So we have stalls of some stuff, and make posters, to make it as big an even as we can. Employees are encouraged…
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.…
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