Do you remember Engelbert Humperdinck? He was a popular British singer in the 1960s and the early 70s who was managed by Gordon Mills, who also managed the biggest singer of that era: Tom Jones.

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 ...

Until that point, every fair-minded person had been inclined to believe that the TMC’s claims of bias were uncalled for and dangerous. But the judge’s leap into politics, his apparent willingness to ...

So, as you can see, it’s a long way away from the Burj Al Arab. Morocco is an entirely different world from the Dubai-centric Middle East that most Indians are familiar with. In a sense, this makes it ...

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 ...

The other great obstacle to the ubiquity of the tomato is traditional Muslim cooking. They do not use tomatoes in Awadhi cooking. There are no tomatoes in biryani and no tomato puree in their Kormas.

But Khattar, who had studied hoteliering in America, was not content. Way back in the 1990s, when India’s restaurant scene was still fairly basic, Rohit wanted to open all kinds of new restaurants. He ...

Bangalore opted for beer over food so it had the best pubs of any Indian city; but I am not sure that it had a sparkling food scene. I rarely found very many high quality mid-market restaurants in ...

We are less concerned with authenticity or tradition in India. We just take things for granted and imagine that dishes have always been around. Let’s take the most famous examples. Tandoori chicken ...

A last point: perhaps somebody at Random House should have read the book closely before writing the inside jacket flap. Pratibha’s point is that the biryani’s origins are shrouded in dispute. (Was it ...

Should Rahul Gandhi have been critical of the way things are in today’s India when he spoke in the UK? Does this amount to asking white people to colonise India as some BJP supporters have suggested?

And yet, I have been a huge admirer of his achievements from afar. Roni linked up with the Chef Chintan Pandya and the two of them started Adda in New York which soon became a rage in the city. They ...