Most bar food all over the world is finger food so you get kababs, sausages, small masala prawns (a Bombay favourite from decades ago) and the like. Now junk sushi rolls are the finger food of choice ...

In the case of the latest Delhi attack judging by the little that we know, this was, ironically enough, a tragic consequence of an intelligence triumph.

This is a companion list but it deals with the meals I ate outside the country. Dharshan Munidasa is Sri Lanka’s greatest chef with restaurants all over the world. And while I have eaten Dharshan’s ...

Until you actually go and see it up close, it is hard to understand how Copenhagen’s Noma, often regarded as the world’s most influential restaurant, is so different from other restaurants. Yes, Noma ...

Nevertheless here is a list of some of the best meals I ate in India this year. I have excluded street food, delivery food and meals cooked by such visiting superstars as Massimo Bottura.

That’s probably why most educated Indians can’t name the last three mayors of New York City. The only mayor who may have some name recognition is Rudolph Guiliani who, in the post 9/11 phase achieved ...

How do you like your food? All together? Or one by one? It may seem like a stupid question but, in many ways, it holds the key to a country’s cuisine. In the West, they tend to eat their food one by ...

The second largest selling branded medication in India is already Mounjaro, the rival to the better known Ozempic; both of ...

And finally: it’s good to see a cookbook that recognises the importance of restaurant dishes but is focused on the best Indian dishes; the ones we eat at home every day.

At no time in our recent history has there been so much anger over harassment and corruption by government officials, bureaucrats and police/customs/enforcement ...

Hell hath no fury like an idli scorned. A British academic found this out the hard way. Asked to respond to a questionnaire about food preferences Ed Anderson replied candidly that he thought the idli ...