A lot of nonsense is spoken about food in India. But in no area are the myths and misconceptions as prevalent as they are in the case of vegetarian and non-vegetarian food habits. People still like to ...

If you have been following the furore over the price of tomatoes, you will note that reporters and political analysts often refer to tomatoes as a basic staple of Indian cooking and the food of the ...

A few weeks ago at HICSA, India’s most important hotel investment conference, Manav Thadani, who runs HVS, the organisation behind HICSA, presented Ajit Kerkar with a lifetime achievement award.

The first time I had an authentic Peking Duck in India was at the Great Wall restaurant at the Leela Palace in Mumbai twenty years ago. I was having lunch with Captain CP Krishnan Nair, the Leela ...

Almost everything you think you know about Morocco is either out of date or a complete lie. Take Casablanca. Those of us who have heard of the city know it from the classic Hollywood movie starring ...

I never need much persuasion to go back to Kolkata. So when Sumit Dasgupta, my former colleague at Sunday and now a big-shot Kolkata editor, invited me to conduct a conversation with Roni Mazumdar, I ...

I was at a preview of the stunning Indian Accent in Mumbai (which may have opened to the general public by the time you read this) and as I tasted the food (on current form: better than the Delhi ...

I usually end each year or begin the following one by listing all the food trends I have observed over the last 12 months. This year, for reasons too tedious to recount, I neglected to do such a piece ...

We were in a small village in a scenic – if touristy – part of Italy called Cinque Terre. There were no grand hotels but an enterprising inn-keeper had converted an old monastery into a ...

Do you think that the judiciary in India has become too politicised? That judges tailor their judgments, especially the remarks, to please politicians? That the hope of fair and free justice in our ...

It’s a question I get asked again and again. And though I nearly always give the same answer, it never seems to satisfy people. It’s a hard question to answer. In most cities, food exists at different ...

There are only a handful of Indians who have made much impact on the global food world. There’s Camellia Panjabi who, apart from writing one of the most successful Indian cookbooks of all time (50 ...