Most of us don’t really know fish and chips. Oh yes, we are familiar with the concept from years of reading British books and seeing movies in which this very English street food dish features. But ...

Either Dubai changed (which it has) or I have (more likely) or a combination of both. My wife, whose views on Dubai used to ...

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.

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 ...

If I asked you to name the most famous north Indian restaurant in the world, my guess is that you would pick the obvious contender: Bukhara. And, by and large, most people would agree with you. It’s ...

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 ...

It is Bangkok time in India. By the time you read this, Gaggan Anand will have finished his whirlwind tour of four cities. The Suhring twins will be on the last day of their pop-up at the Taj Mahal ...

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 ...

Over a decade ago I was at Dickins and Jones, a famous, historic department store on London’s Regent Street when they suddenly shut off the muzak. A voice on the PA system announced. “The store will ...

Sometimes a hotel can make or break your trip. I was invited to San Sebastian (in the Basque country in Spain) to attend Gastronomika, an international foodie seminar where India was the focus country ...

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 ...

Many people on Twitter marked an article from the Hindustan Times to me. The piece was a summary of a report by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and had an irresistible headline: “Samosa ...