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Vargas Llosa surprise Nobel Literature winner
October 8, 2010, 5:01 PM IST
One of the most interesting aspects to this year’s award of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Peruvian writer, Mario Vargas Llosa, is not his suitability to receive it. Anyone who has read his…
October 8, 2010, 5:01 PM IST
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Little Luxuries: A Prune A Day
October 8, 2010, 4:58 PM IST
Pity poor prunes. Other dried fruits like raisins and apricots are much esteemed for their intense taste and sticky chewiness, but prunes seem to be stuck with associations of the old and unappeal-ing. We derisively…
October 8, 2010, 4:58 PM IST
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Little Luxuries: Preserved lemons
October 1, 2010, 5:00 PM IST
It’s bit odd, lemons to track Wholesale Price Index!
October 1, 2010, 5:00 PM IST
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That’s money, honey!
October 1, 2010, 4:43 AM IST
Honey is in the news these days, but it has been some time since it featured in this column, and there’s a reason for that. A few years back I wrote about the wonderful mono-floral…
October 1, 2010, 4:43 AM IST
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Garam Masala: The truth about a bee-stung business
September 27, 2010, 11:45 AM IST
Honey is in the news these days, but it has been some time since it featured in this column, and there’s a reason for that. A few years back I wrote about the wonderful mono-floral…
September 27, 2010, 11:45 AM IST
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LITTLE LUXURIES: Dill Maange More
September 24, 2010, 10:07 PM IST
There are certain great oppositions in food, not just differences in taste, but in style, sensation and source. Not so much Coke and Pepsi (Thums Up is obviously better than both), but salt and sugar,…
September 24, 2010, 10:07 PM IST
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I locavore. You glocavore?
September 20, 2010, 1:05 AM IST
Digesting the diet and revisiting the argument about what should the taste buds decide and how.
September 20, 2010, 1:05 AM IST
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Little Luxuries: Tongue Flavours
September 17, 2010, 9:45 AM IST
Usually for this column CD likes to use a picture that clearly shows the ingredient that is its subject. But this time we are not for a simple reason — the subject is tongue and…
September 17, 2010, 9:45 AM IST
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A Global Ganesha
September 10, 2010, 5:45 PM IST
[Mumbai renews its relationship with its favourite god this Ganesh Chaturthi. But Ganesha/Ganpati is more than just Mumbai’s deity, but one of the best known and most easily recognisable Hindu deities in the world, who…
September 10, 2010, 5:45 PM IST
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Little Luxuries: Heirloom Tomatoes
September 10, 2010, 11:04 AM IST
They looked so tempting in the chill cabinet for vegetables in the Amsterdam supermarket . A box of blemish free tomatoes, each glowing brilliant red. The hostel where I was staying, 10 years back, only…
September 10, 2010, 11:04 AM IST
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Garam Masala: The survival of Roma traditions
September 6, 2010, 5:11 PM IST
I wonder if Indira Gandhi would have protested France’s ongoing expulsion of the Roma. That it is worth protesting is not in doubt, and condemnation has come from home and abroad. By deporting the Roma,…
September 6, 2010, 5:11 PM IST
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LITTLE LUXURIES: Sneaky Seduction
September 3, 2010, 4:46 PM IST
Imagine if spices were people. This is admittedly fanciful, but given their strong and unique flavours, it’s easy to put personalities on them. Cinnamon and nutmeg are the friendly, gregarious ones, outgoing and eager to…
September 3, 2010, 4:46 PM IST
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Garam Masala – V.S.Naipaul and food
September 1, 2010, 3:13 PM IST
Sir Vidia Naipaul’s has been making news again for his latest work of non-fiction The Masque of Africa. I haven’t read it yet, but the reviews suggest that the book is a serious attempt to…
September 1, 2010, 3:13 PM IST
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Little Luxuries – baby potatoes
August 27, 2010, 2:34 PM IST
India is among the top five producers of potatoes in the world and that might seem impressive enough. But K.V.Peters, in his useful handbook Tuber Crops (National Book Trust), makes a valiant attempt to go…
August 27, 2010, 2:34 PM IST
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Curry in Carolina, Idli in Idaho
August 23, 2010, 11:18 AM IST
Ritain is celebrating the bicentenary of its curry houses. It was in 1810 that Sake Dean Mohamed, an early Indian immigrant, started the Hindostanee Coffee-House in London for people to enjoy “Indian dishes in the…
August 23, 2010, 11:18 AM IST
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Little luxuries: A load of Waffle
August 20, 2010, 9:26 AM IST
I wasn’t expecting a lesson in language politics when I first asked for a waffle in Belgium. This was in the beautiful old city of Bruges, where most people go to see the canals or…
August 20, 2010, 9:26 AM IST
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Is it a myth or is it a lie?
August 16, 2010, 1:22 AM IST
In another column in this paper I recently wrote about Malabar spinach, the thick leafed creeper that under names like pui shaak, basale or mayalu is cooked in places like West Bengal, Mangalore or the…
August 16, 2010, 1:22 AM IST
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G-7’s ‘seeti’ scans
August 14, 2010, 1:09 AM IST
When Manoj Desai tells you of the Bollywood stars who come to check out how their shows are doing at Gaiety-Galaxy, or G-7, as the seven-screen multiplex he runs in Bandra is called, it can…
August 14, 2010, 1:09 AM IST
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Little Luxuries: Mutant Malabar Spinach
August 13, 2010, 11:02 AM IST
Be brave and try taming the wild looking Malabar Spinach in your kitchen. It’s something to be able to startle a vegetable vendor with a vegetable. True, this wasn’t the vendor himself, a guy near…
August 13, 2010, 11:02 AM IST
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Garam Masala – kitchen languages
August 3, 2010, 5:54 PM IST
I was in Chennai recently around the time of the DMK’s World Classical Tamil Conference. This was in Coimbatore, but was very visible in Chennai as well, with posters everywhere of DMK leaders felicitating Tamil…
August 3, 2010, 5:54 PM IST
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