Winter food: Discovering Lucknow’s obscure black carrot halwa – and Delhi’s rarer white version

Both variants are markedly less sweet than the popular red gajar halwa.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Jan 03, 2019 · 12:00 pm

An Indian chef is giving Las Vegas a taste of Kerala’s toddy shop food

With dishes like parotta beef fry and karimeen pollichathu, Hemant Kishore wants to highlight lesser-known Indian food in the US.

Sharmila Vaidyanathan

· Dec 22, 2018 · 11:30 am

A German married to a Bengali has won a major award for her food blog that combines the two cuisines

Beatrix Basu’s blog ‘Cooking for Elephants’ is a melting pot of flavours and culinary influences.

Priyadarshini Chatterjee

· Dec 13, 2018 · 11:30 am

A new cookbook shows there’s more to Rajasthani cuisine than Daal Bati Churma and Gatte ki Sabzi

‘Jodhpur: An Insight to a Gourmet Destination’ is a treasure trove of recipes and nuggets from the royal kitchens.

Chandrima Pal

· Nov 28, 2018 · 03:30 pm

This no-frills cookbook is the ideal beginner’s guide to South Indian food

‘A Cook’s Tour of South India’ by Vimla Patil is divided into six sections and features solid and reliable recipes.

Anisha Rachel Oommen

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Aysha Tanya

· Nov 21, 2018 · 11:30 am

From Shahi Tukda to Dahi Toast: How Indians desi-fied humble white bread

Across the country, bread is used imaginatively and prolifically to drum up a range of quintessentially desi treats, some of them iconic.

Priyadarshini Chatterjee

· Nov 15, 2018 · 11:30 am

Paneer has sadly eclipsed other native Indian cheeses like kalari, chhurpi and churu

It is indeed easier to find camembert and pecorino in Indian metros than these five native cheeses.

Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri

· Nov 04, 2018 · 11:30 am

The story of how India fell in love with Chinese food

With its rice and gravy-based dishes, Chinese food was the ideal combination of foreign and familiar for Indians.

Maria Thomas, qz.com

· Oct 15, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Going beyond xacuti and cafreal, an old cookbook serves the delights of Goan Catholic cuisine

The ‘Goan Cookbook’ by Joyce Fernandes has been the kitchen guide for Goans over the past few decades.

Anisha Rachel Oommen

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Aysha Tanya

· Oct 11, 2018 · 11:30 am

In the Caribbean, a scion of the Naipaul-Capildeo family is fusing rum with Indian tea

With Chai Rum, Kiran Shiva Akal wants to ‘marry the narrative of the East Indies to the West Indies’.

Anu Kumar

· Oct 07, 2018 · 11:30 am

Steak and biriyanis: As beef goes off the menu in much of India, Kolkata can’t seem to do without it

The city’s long history of cosmopolitanism has created many culinary strands that weave in meat.

Shoaib Daniyal

· Sep 24, 2018 · 11:30 am

Delicious memories: How a cookbook published in the US in 1969 left its mark on Indian food writing

Santha Rama Rau’s ‘The Cooking of India’ didn’t just have recipes. It mixed in memoir, cultural history and travelogue too.

Anu Kumar

· Sep 23, 2018 · 11:30 am