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 ...

Almost everything you think you know about Morocco is either out of date or a complete lie. Take Casablanca. Those of us who have heard of the city know it from the classic Hollywood movie starring ...

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 ...

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 ...

I was at a preview of the stunning Indian Accent in Mumbai (which may have opened to the general public by the time you read this) and as I tasted the food (on current form: better than the Delhi ...

It’s a question I get asked again and again. And though I nearly always give the same answer, it never seems to satisfy people. It’s a hard question to answer. In most cities, food exists at different ...

If you have grandparents who are interested in food, here are some questions you can ask them. If they are from Mangalore or even Malvan, you can ask them if they ever ate crab in butter garlic at ...

Regular readers of this column will be familiar with two regulars of Rude Food. The first is the great biryani hunt, which is now into its second year with disastrous consequences for my shape. And ...

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?

I never need much persuasion to go back to Kolkata. So when Sumit Dasgupta, my former colleague at Sunday and now a big-shot Kolkata editor, invited me to conduct a conversation with Roni Mazumdar, I ...

I once interviewed Jean-Claude Ellena, the legendary French perfumer (First by Van Cleef & Arpels, Declaration by Cartier, Terre d’Hermes, etc.) who created the first green tea fragrance for Bulgari ...