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Crunch Time: Seven Community-Specific Snacks For The Monsoon
Kethon Mate Kyaw at Burma Burma. A couple of years ago, just as the monsoons rolled around, a senior journalist friend of mine mocked, “As soon as it starts raining, newspapers and food writers will...
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Community Mapping: A Culinary Tour Of Vashi’s State Bhawans
Thali at Odisha Bhawan. Lately, every lunch meeting I have in South Mumbai happens at one of two places on Pitha Street in the Fort district – Hotel Deluxe or Taste of Kerala – both of which, for those...
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Where Has All The White Corn Gone?
A month ago, after the rains arrived, I received a text from a friend asking me where he can get some bhutta. His wife is pregnant, and at that moment, she had a desperate bhutta craving. He was on a...
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Monsoon Bounty: Seasonal Vegetables And Fruits To Eat Right Now
Some of my old favourite bhajiwalas have become favourites because I can walk over to their stalls, gawk at the contents of their baskets, point and say, “What is this?”, and know that they won’t laugh...
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Malayalis, Meals And Marol: Why Andheri East Is Mumbai’s Hub Of Kerala Cuisine
A thali at Murali’s. There aren’t many exciting reasons to go to Andheri East. It’s not the hippest of neighbourhoods, and few parts of it are easy on the eye. Unless they live or work there, most...
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Why The BMC’s Proposed Ban On MSG Is Another Misdirected Move
The BMC is worried about us getting headaches and cancers. They want to be sure, that if we do get them, it at least won’t be because they didn’t manage our consumption of monosodium glutamate or MSG,...
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Wake Up And Smell The (Single Estate) Coffee
A few months ago, we had coffee from an estate called Kalledevarapura delivered to our home, ground just a couple of days before specifically for our brewing method of choice, the French press. The...
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A Thandai Tradition: How My Mum’s Sindhi Cooking Shaped Me As A Food Writer
Puja Bajaj’s hastily jotted recipe for gur papdi acquired from a friend. When my Badi Mummy (dad’s mom) was alive, on Maha Shivratri, we’d make thandai like this: grind elaichi, jeera, saunf, khus...
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A Tale Of Thaals: The Mohameds Are Upholding Bohri Traditions On A Platter
The Mohameds at their Iftar party last year. From right: Tasneem Hatimbhai, Khozema Mohamed, Hatim Mohamed, Kehkashan Merchant, Yusuf Merchant. Every Ramadan, Khozema Mohamed’s Muslim and non-Muslim...
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Eating Out In Alibag
Mayur Bakery. This past weekend, I spent eight hours in Alibag and ate four meals, each of which I would go back for. BREAKFAST One of the best (as well as cleanest and most professionally-run)...
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