Food Talk
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Chicken paté with curry powder, anyone? The strange history of ice cream flavours
Delving into the history of food can bring new perspective to both the past and the present.
Lindsay Middleton, The Conversation
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Espresso, filter, French press: Which method of making coffee gives you the strongest hit?
Caffeine content only explains a small part of the strength of coffee.
Emma Beckett, The Conversation
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Long before Daulat ki Chaat became an Instagram favourite, it was an unembellished country dish
The much-photographed treat is known by many names around North India but its defining characteristic remains the same: Airy lightness.
Anoothi Vishal
Trending
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‘Saffronisation of Doordarshan’: After DD News unveils new logo, social media users express alarm
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‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’
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How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot
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Is apple cider vinegar as good for health as it sounds?
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How Guwahati became the second-most polluted city in the world
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Why are Indians so preoccupied with what Nagas eat, whether it is dogs, bats or falcons?
Debates about Naga food overlook the perspective that situates it in relation to other aspects of their cultural and political life.
Elspeth Iralu
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Nutrition expert Rujuta Diwekar offers three rules for the kitchen to cut unhealthy practices
Simple changes that can affect daily health, from the author of ‘The 12-week Fitness Project’.
Rujuta Diwekar
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What nutrition studies like the one supporting red meat fail to consider
Food researchers often pool in data from large populations, failing to calculate variations in health risks and metabolism amongst the populations.
Richard Hoffman, The Conversation
Video
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Eco India, Episode 258: Is repurposing waste saving the environment from further degradation?
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Watch: This fan-made trailer imagines Henry Cavill and Margot Robbie starring in a James Bond film
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Watch: Mount Ruang erupts in Indonesia, spewing columns of ash and lava
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Watch: Unbelievable scenes of flooding in Dubai airport, streets, and malls after heavy rain in UAE
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Indian elections: How secure is the EVM-VVPAT process?
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Nearly 75% of Indian executives are overweight, all thanks to that super fatty evening snack
High stress, sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy fat-rich, protein-poor diets have added to Indian corporate workers’ waistlines, a new report says.
Manavi Kapur, qz.com
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There is no such thing as a detoxifying juice – and other fruit myths busted
A diet of only fruit, for example, isn’t actually balanced. It lacks essential nutrients like vitamin B12.
José Miguel Mulet, The Conversation
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I sent my saliva to Norway for a personalised diet plan – and it changed more than the way I eat
Personalised nutrition plans based on DNA-analyses can help extend lives.
Barbara J Stewart-Knox, The Conversation
The Reel
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‘Trap’ trailer: M Night Shyamalan’s thriller stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer
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Watch: Five directors shoot on iPhones for MAMI Mumbai Film Festival initiative
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‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem
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‘Love Sex Aur Dhokha 2’ review: Laboured and barely provocative
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‘Civil War’ review: An urgent film about a barely-distant future
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Odisha gets Geographical Indication tag for its rasagola
The state government was under pressure to file for recognition of their variant of the sweet in 2018 after West Bengal got the GI tag for the same.
Scroll Staff
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‘Keventers is no longer as good as it used to be,’ says Delhi High Court judge
The judge was hearing a plea filed by Super Milk Products, which had re-launched Keventers in 2015, against one of its licensees.
Scroll Staff
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Meat of the matter: Does the vegetarian burger have a future?
Silicon Valley’s meatless tech burgers are a false kind of moral and environmental revolution.
Alicia Kennedy
The Field
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Watch, highlights ISL 2024: Odisha FC through to semi-final after beating Kerala Blasters in playoff
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IPL 2024: KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock power Lucknow to comfortable win over Chennai
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Aman loses in semi-final as Indian men fail to win Paris quotas
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Shooting, Indian Olympic trials: Esha Singh, Bhavesh Shekhawat lead in respective 25m pistol events
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Wrestling, Asian Olympic Qualifiers: Deepak Punia, Sujeet Kalkal fail to make weigh-ins in time