Chronicles from outside the Kitchen

For once, it was not Woody Allen who wrote my template for a city even though his urban scapes have imbued every other city I lived in...

Author, graphic novelist and journalist Shweta Taneja's latest offering Cult of Chaos (Harper Collins India) is a curious book. ...

I met Suniti Namjoshi on a stormy evening last month at the Bowring Institute in Bangalore over cups of strong filter coffee. In town fo...

Delhi by night is dangerous, threatening, seething with discontent. There is something almost otherworldly about its tree-shrouded neigh...

ln the past few weeks, every time I have spoken to a friend or an acquaintance about to burn out from the corporate grind, looking to ...

A self-confessed funny girl, Itisha Peerbhoy’s debut novel, Half Love Half Arranged is definitely funny, laced with familiar characters...

For the uninitiated, Michele Ferrero was a real-life Willy Wonka and innovator of marvellous confections and owner of the chocolate m...

I imagined my first food truck experience to be straight out of the freewheeling Jon Favreau’s 2014 film Chef , taking me to melty chees...

Culinary Treasures of the Northeast While travel and food are intrinsically linked, sometimes the latter becomes a singular aspect ...

Food as a Map Through Which we Learn   This week, we continue our culinary journey across the country continuing from where we le...

The Amazing Racist opens on a hot tropical day in Colombo, Sri Lanka. There is a tropical storm brewing in the distant horizon as well ...

India has long been regarded as the land of diversity, and in no segment is that more apparent than in its food which is as varied as it...

For anyone who has grown up in Kolkata, biryani is the holy grail of food in the city and one that is available in plenitude, around st...

One of my favourite science fiction writers, Ray Bradbury wrote in his dystopian novel, Fahrenheit 451, “See the world. It's more fant...

In Fort Kochi, one can never be far away from a good meal, a story and a picturesque photo-op. These are epic tales of a God that resid...

The last day of any new year is celebrated with gusto across the globe and more often than not, the party is often taken to the streets...

I live, like many other migrants to Bengaluru, in a well-guarded multi-storied bastion, keeping the rest of the world out. I also live ...

I recently watched The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and soaked in the beauty of Middle Earth aka New Zealand for the last ...