Exploring Korean Cuisine in Mumbai
My experience with Korean culture like most Mumbaikars has been limited.Years ago,when I went off on a Trafalgar Tours trip to Europe,I met Koreans for the first time...two cute,petite teenagers who...
View ArticleSaraswats versus Pathare Prabhus Home Chef Potluck
Our Potluck group of Home Chefs has been meeting for a while.We believe in three things:1.We have no rules 2.There is no such thing as too many friends 3.Food is everything :)Earlier we just got our...
View ArticleParsi Potluck at Pia's...Carrying Forward Culinary Traditions
Our group met again,this time for Parsi cuisine.In April,I had attended a Parsi food walk, organized by SodaWaterBottleOpenerWalla,a  hip restaurant that specializes in the same cuisine,along with food...
View ArticleAn Insight into Kathiawadi Food
It's been a really long time since I blogged.There wasn't any exciting enough to write about.One day,Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal told me about her Taste and Talk series and I jumped at the idea! Today...
View ArticleA Walk through Mirchi Gully,Lalbaug,Mumbai
It was the search for our community masala that led my cousin Archana and me to Lalbaug.We belong to the Twashta Kasar community,whose people lived mainly in Girgaum,Mahim,Alibaug and some parts of...
View ArticleBreaking Bread with the Bread Guru
My first tryst with Sourdough bread was in USA.Had tomato soup in a sourdough bread bowl in LA.Then when I visited my friends in Napa Valley, Kavita and Brendan,I was bowled over by it...
View ArticleLearning Food Skills from Ankiet : Food Styling and Phone Photography
On a hot April afternoon,food blogger,chef and food stylist Ankiet Gulabani conducted a Food Styling and Phone Photography Workshop at the charming Jamjar Diner at Bandra.The venue was well chosen as...
View ArticleGetting to know Japanese Cuisine
I have been intrigued by the name of  Magazine Street Kitchen,ever since I read about it.Turns out Magazine Street is the street in Byculla it is on.The Kitchen is beautiful and spacious,2500 sq feet...
View ArticleArchaeobroma: Back to Summer School
Food fascinates me and a whole lot of people!! No wonder then that the University of Mumbai had its first All India Conference on Food as Culture "Archaebroma".The United Nations recognizes three...
View ArticleFood From God's Own Country
It was our Sourdough Bread class with Sujit Sumitran that got us thinking on the possibility of a class on Kerala cuisine.The lunch was prepared by his wife Sudha and was so different and flavorsome...
View ArticleMASALA DAY at SBOW,Phoenix Mills
We celebrated Masala Day (20th May) at the Sodabottleopenerwala at Phoenix Mills,the creative brainchild of Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal who has formed a calendar of Indian Food Observance Days.If you ask...
View ArticleTEMECULA WINE COUNTRY
I love California! The song Hotel California pretty much summarizes it for me.Be it Los Angeles,San Diego or San Francisco.Great weather,great food and lovely people.This trip I visited Temecula Wine...
View ArticleCulinary Chroniclers' Conclave 2018
Attended the much awaited Culinary Chroniclers Conclave at Godrej One,Vikhroli.Organized by Rushina Munshaw -Ghildiyal and Vikhroli Cucina,this was held in a gorgeous glass building in a beautiful and...
View ArticleNEWPORT BEACH FARMERS' MARKET
My first experience of the Farmers' Market was ten years ago in Los Angeles,thanks to my school friend Sushma Adarkar.She lived at the Pacific Palisades at the time and was a regular at the Santa...
View ArticleForest Vegetables (Raan Bhaaji) Festival in Mumbai
Exactly a year ago,my friend Bimba and I saw an announcement about foraging in the forest with locals and then having a meal with them.This was about three hours away from Mumbai and we were pretty...
View ArticleGetting To Know Tibetan Cuisine
Tibet lies to the north of India.Its inhabitants have traversed far and wide in India,spreading their culture and cuisine,particularly in Dharamsala,McCleodgunj,(Majnu Ka Tila)Delhi,Kolkata and...
View ArticleEating My Way Through Norway
  There was a song that I loved in my teens: Belinda Carlisle's "Oooh, Heaven is a place on Earth".Now I know that place is  Norway! Gorgeous landscapes,loving people and lots of seafood! What's not...
View ArticleThe Fish Market at Bergen
nThis is my second post on Norway.My first is "Eating My Way Through Norway".It's a country that everyone who visits, falls in love with! We made Bergen our base.It is located in the southwestern part...
View ArticlePathare Prabhu Thali On Sunday
When Soumitra Velkar invited us for lunch,both Bonny (of Hungry Cat Kitchen) and me got super excited.It was a year back that we had gone over to his place and enjoyed a Pathare Prabhu meal (first...
View ArticleA Perfect Party For Women's Day
Went to the Perfect ParTea,a brainchild of Rushina Ghildiyal-Munshaw,a celebration of Women's Day,it being in its sixth year of existence.The venue was Craft Deli at the Phoenix Market City,Kurla and...
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