Parsi food :

Mumbai's Fawlty Towers.... An Irani Cafe Story

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The family legend goes that my dad learnt how to cook Chinese from one of his Chinese patients in the UK in the seventies. That my mother learnt from my father and was one of the first mothers in Calcutta to make Chinese in the eighties. Twenty[...]

Mutton Sutra ... a right brained defense of a much maligned meat

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Mutton memories My first memory of mutton or goat meat is roughly from the time when I was eight years old. My dad would fry my some mutton and call it 'Turkish Delight'. I was a fussy eater even then and my parents had to resort to all[...]

Of virgin white sheets and black lace. Foccaccia from Yazdani Bakery

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White sands. Azure skies. Cheerful blue seas. The sound of waves crashing into the wind. Chilled white in a bucket of ice. Grains of caviar on virginal crackers. A bowl of grapes. White sandals strewn carelessly on a red rug. The swish of[...]

Have you called your Granny lately? Alu Miri (Peppered potatoes)

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Once upon a time there was a granny whom everyone called Mamma . All week she would sit quietly at home. Looking onto the busy road from her veranda. Waiting for her granddaughter to drop by for the weekend when school was shut. Mamma would[...]

Daddy?s Deli, Indiranagar: Parsi Cuisine in Bangalore

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I’ve been hoarding this one for ages. I first encountered Daddy’s Deli in 2002. At that time, friend-of-many-years Rajesh Nair was subsisting on their egg and chutney sandwiches and chicken subs – to the point where the delivery boy[...]

Paradise - Heavenly Food

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Fifth Day of Ganesh Chaturti me and my friend Kaiwan decided on going to eat somewhere out as we left late from office. After contemplating of 100 of places we decided going to Paradise. Located near Strand Cinema if you walk/drive by too fast you[...]

' The Mumbai Food Oscars'

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I wasn't going to write today. I was really tired. Eyes burning tired. Then went and got the mixer fixed at Pali Market after work. Went to the gym. I use minimum weights but still hate leg routine days. Made my doi posto ilish . Had to look up my[...]

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T wo trips is what it took me to fall in love with this place. The first trip happened on a tuesday (I'm a vegetarian on a tuesday) and though I liked the vegetarian dhansak, I was more keen to try out their non-vegetarian counterpart.[...]

Sicilian Caponata over Z'atared Lavash Crackers - PFB Challenge #2 and Velveteers

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That's a long title, isn't it?! But then, I have so much to say! First off, I made it through the first cut of the FoodBuzz Project Food Blog 2010. YAY!! Thanks so much to everyone who voted and for all the lovely comments on my last challenge post[...]