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…
Crystal, just around the corner no more
Some restaurants are more than that. They are a part of your being, in the sense that they have played a large role in your life at some stage. You have hung out there, waiting for someone special, or with someone special. Or gone back there again and again, to have one particular dish. You…
And the answers….
Thanks for the responses, guys. As expected, many of you got the answers bang on. Here are the answers anyway: 1. Upma 2. Amul girl 3. Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 4. Sandwich 5. Long Island Iced Tea Kudos to Anirban, Prasan, Megs83 and Shoubhik for a full score! Expect more quizzes, on…
Food for Thought – 1
Here are a set of questions on food and beverage. More coming your way regularly! Which food dish gets its name – a very similar one in many South Indian languages, since its primary ingredients are salt and flour? Call her the “Friday to Friday” star. Round eyed, chubby cheeked, winking at you, from strategically…
Tea drinking and we Assamese people
Fish is to the Bengali as tea is to us Assamese ( I notice that this food blog has as many Bengali contributors are there are types of ways to cook fish). So, this post on us Assamese people and our obsession with tea-drinking. You can take the “xo” out of the Oxomiya, you can…
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