If you have been to a fancy Western restaurant or even to one serving that kind of food in India, you will have noticed that the food comes out from the kitchen already plated. The main component of ...

So, has Bangkok, which most of us know well and regard a reasonably priced holiday destination that is not too far away, ...

Call me a jaded old bore but these are the current trends/clichés that I hate the most. There has always been a distinction ...

So I make no value judgements about Gastro tourism. All I will say is that it now dominates gastronomy at the highest level.

It seems odd but for many, many years, I went to Bangalore mainly for the food. These days when you talk about Bangalore and food, people imagine that you mean the fancy newish places: Toscano, ...

Fortunately, unlike Shimla, which was destroyed by its own popularity, Mashobra and the areas around it remain unspoiled and quite ethereally beautiful.

Comments. Gautam 12 Dec 2023 It's amazing how foods from the New World(chillies, potatoes, tomatoes etc) dominate our diet these days while many of our own homegrown ingredients they replaced are ...

We have regulations in place to guard against civil servants who favour private companies and then try and then join them after retirement. But we have no regulations that prevent judges from ...

Though we don’t often admit it, most Indians are always a little annoyed by the global tendency to treat our food as a cheap and cheerful ethnic cuisine. That characterisation is probably the legacy ...

It was the Left, not the Right, that traditionally opposed anything to do with the US, including even the Indo-US nuclear deal, which was clearly in India’s interests.

There was a time when caviar was considered a rare delicacy. Even among the wealthy, it was a special-occasion food, reserved for celebrations. All that has now changed. Suddenly, caviar is ubiquitous ...

For much of its early history, ITC Hotels was no more than India’s also-ran hotel chain. Bombay had the Taj and Delhi had the Oberoi. Both these chains so completely dominated the hospitality business ...