Food habits of people have been determined time and again by their socio-political environment. Sounds weird? It will be clear by the time you finish
As the air turns warmer around us things turn a little sour. Only in the most positive way.
Chicken noodle soup may be many Americans’ go-to staple when it comes to healing the body and soul. But when I’m down and out, nothing
Dal interestingly is both an ingredient as well as a dish. It can be a poor man’s staple as well as a luxurious indulgence. Dal
From morning till afternoon amidst yellow and ochre robed men– cooks and volunteers got busy cooking kilos of pork with bamboo shoots and fragrant white
However, paneer is a type of cheese from India, while tofu is soybean curd from China. On the other hand Burmese tofu is made from
A large number of immigrants who settled in Brazil introduced their own culinary culture– like the German & Russians in the south of Brazil, Japanese
The history of Mango began thousands of years ago in the Indian subcontinent. The national fruit of India, Pakistan and Philippines, the mango tree is
‘Shutki Maach’ as we call the ‘dried fish’ is an acquired taste. You’d only have to look at the love people have for dried, smoked
The Tamil culinary tradition believes in the principle of ‘arusuvai’ or the six different tastes – sweet, sour, bitter, spicy, salty, astringent (pungent), which helps
The marketplace was love at first sight for me. Being an avid foodie, a market which had splendorous food shops spread over more than two
The complexity In Burmese food is found more by focusing on each mouthful rather than expecting it to immediately overwhelm the tastebuds.In short, flavours of
One such beautiful festival of ‘Thanksgiving’ is Pongal. It is a spring festival celebrated in the south of India specially by the Tamil community.
Thailand and the saga of street food is a different story altogether. Our journey began in Pattaya and ended in Chatuchak Market in Bangkok. The
Bengali cuisine is marked by certain typicality…first, there are no set masalas for preparing a particular dish, and second, vegetables have to be cut in
The hilsa or ilish is the star of Bengali cuisine on both sides of the Indo-Bangladesh border. An elaborate festive spread is considered incomplete without