The weekend has been a washout ... with continuous rain for the last 48 hours or so..... ..what better way to spend time indoors than do a spot of baking..... I asked Dwaip what he wanted and he said chocolate chip cookies- after a quick check in the baking cupboard... i figured I had all…
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…
Bercos, Dwarka – Comfort Chinese (at home)
Metropolitan India is undergoing a global cuisine revolution. Descriptors such as niche, artisanal, authentic, creative and fusion now apply to numerous new restaurants in Mumbai, Bangalore and even Delhi (where the hippest restaurants are often found in its oldest villages - subject of a couple of posts previously). Foodies throng to these new places, discovering…
Of real life monsters and French(???) rice
Fairy tales are so naïve. There are tomes written about monsters that are perpetually hungry and need to be fed all the time. Sigh…. No such luck in real life... As far as my experience with real life monsters (I have a 6 year old) goes, they do not eat food and prefer to survive…
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