With no Farm Laws-type issue (which can be handled) dominating debate and some internal polls suggesting that the UP Assembly election will be close the BJP needs all the help it can get. Will Chief ...

Last week we were booked to go to Bangkok to attend the World Gourmet Festival, an annual event organised by the Anantara ...

Bukhara, which will begin celebrating its 45th anniversary this weekend, is now the most famous Indian restaurant in the world. Nearly every US President since Bill Clinton has eaten Bukhara’s food.

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 ...

What a year in food it’s been! It’s been a year of triumphs. A year of recovery. It’s almost as though the pandemic never happened. Indian restaurants have shone abroad. And within the country, our ...

Most Indian gastronomic classics —that is to say, dishes that you find on lots of menus — have been around for decades if not centuries. North Indian biryani dates back to the Mughals. What we now ...

It’s both puzzling and a little gratifying. Whenever you mention dosas to knowledgeable foodies, they look at you a little superiorly and ask, “But do you like benne dosa?” A new restaurant serving ...

There are, wrote F Scott Fitzgerald, no second acts in American lives. I was reminded of this and about how it clearly did not apply to Indian lives when I had lunch last week with Ranjit Mathrani at ...

I have been going to Italy — which I love — for longer than many readers of Brunch have been alive. And yet, somehow I had never been to Naples, one of Italy’s most famous cities. When I finally did ...

What do you suppose is India’s favourite bottled sauce? If you answered ‘tomato ketchup’ you would probably be right. But despite the current sauce boom and the growing popularity of mayonnaise, I ...

So there will be a Dalai Lama even after the incumbent dies. Ending years of speculation the Dalai Lama announced this week that heeding appeals from millions of Tibetans he has come around to the ...

Have you seen the hit American streaming show, The White Lotus? Season One, filmed and released during the Pandemic, focussed on a group of wealthy guests and the staff at a luxury hotel in Hawaii. It ...