We went back to Fia's Lounge, the lovely Parsi restaurant on Richmond Road in Bangalore, for lunch yesterday. Our elder daughter was in town, and leaving soon, and we were keen to have a proper, memorable meal out somewhere. After running through a few options, we settled on Fia's - which, although we'd only been…
Why Food?
In the middle of a particularly assiduous day working from home this week and racing to meet a deadline that day, I caught myself grating heaps of fresh ginger and garlic to marinate two glistening pink, wild caught salmon steaks. I had been thinking of the salmon since morning, intermittently through my morning cup of…
A Poem: My Wife’s Cooking
(re-posting from my blog, http://appapappa.com/?p=278) My Wife's Cooking I come to the table preoccupied You serve me dal with rice, Simple to cook, done in a jiffy - 3/4th cup dal, 2 cups water, Turmeric, and a pinch of salt - Boil, boil, till it is done. Then the tadka, a splatter in hot oil Of…
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…
Ahmedabad – Dhoklas, and dinner at The House of MG
Kanchuki, Nika & I got away for short break to The Little Rann of Kutch (migratory birds & wild asses!), Ahmedabad (the Sankranthi Kite Festival) and Mumbai (the Mumbai marathon) a few weeks ago. At Ahmedabad, we stayed in a clean, friendly and cheap hotel called Hotel Volga, just off Relief Road. We checked in…
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