So I make no value judgements about Gastro tourism. All I will say is that it now dominates gastronomy at the highest level.

Call me a jaded old bore but these are the current trends/clichés that I hate the most. There has always been a distinction ...

The worst part of some of the responses to the crash is the lack of respect they demonstrate for the hard working people of ...

The lack of anonymity doesn’t necessarily mean they always eat well. Years ago I went with Maschler to Le Chabanais a much hyped London restaurant opened by trendy French chef Inaki Aziparte. The food ...

It seems odd but for many, many years, I went to Bangalore mainly for the food. These days when you talk about Bangalore and food, people imagine that you mean the fancy newish places: Toscano, ...

This is a list that rather conveniently uses two different definitions when selecting the best Indian restaurants of the year. I have included some of the best ones serving Indian food around the ...

Sometimes food disappears. Tastes change. People move on. And snacks and dishes fall from favour. In Mumbai, in the 1970s, the most popular kind of popcorn was masala popcorn, flavoured with so much ...

Though we don’t often admit it, most Indians are always a little annoyed by the global tendency to treat our food as a cheap and cheerful ethnic cuisine. That characterisation is probably the legacy ...

Bangalore is now the food capital of India. And Mumbai is the only other city where exciting things are happening. Part of Delhi’s problem has been a lack of space. That has eased somewhat with the ...

I don’t usually write very much about foreign policy because there are hundreds of writers (more, perhaps) who have dedicated their lives to studying Indian foreign policy and never hesitate to ...

In times of trouble, we often find comfort in nostalgia. I have been reading The Big Goodbye by Sam Wasson; an account of 1960s/1970s Hollywood featuring such characters as Warren Beatty, Roman ...

Among the many things that surprise me about Thailand, and Bangkok in particular, is how nothing stops the world from visiting. I have been writing about Thailand regularly for nearly four decades and ...