Pizza is a topic that you can accuse me of being obsessed with and I won’t even mind it. History of pizza is quite interesting, just like the combination of its toppings. I intend to write an entire book based on pizzas. Wait! You know what, I would like to release a volume of books…
There are said to be two kinds of people in the world. Let me safely start this blog on basis of this famous reference. There are two kinds of people in the world, one who like thandai with a dose of bhang and the others who just like plain classic thandai. To which kind you…
Have you heard about the story of Akshaya Patra? It is a mythological cauldron from Mahabharata. Which is believed to keep on making food and never gets emptied by any means. I so wish that it was present with us today. The biggest issue of world hunger would have been solved by help of it….
Imagine you are seated at a dining table near the beach, the tides hitting the sand and their noise is filling up the void left behind by the wind. Your table is covered with peach colored table cloth, it is decorated with a bouquet of blue orchids. The salty smell of the sea though stale,…
Adults, when under severe emotional stress, turn to what could be called ‘comfort food’ this was the heading of an article in the Palm Beach Post newspaper in 1966. Since then the term comfort food have been used world over at least a billion times. It could have been related to mild stress leading situations…
Standing in the by lanes of iconic Paranthe wali gali (if you ever get a chance), you will realize how special this delicacy is. Paratha is the most frequently made breakfast in the Indian homes. I am skeptical about the fact that there is a person in India who has never eaten a Paratha. Prove…
Recently I was reading this damn good article on Pani Puri and while reading I knew it was going to fiddle with my mind and give me cravings. Only few foods are so good enough that can give me cravings. I generally don’t crave foods, but when I do then it is a known fact…
I can’t believe that it was 10 months ago that I shared my lunch with friends. The anticipation of expecting something good to be there behind the closed lids of lunchbox was a special moment. The concept of eating lunch together is in itself an inseparable part of our upbringing. Lunchboxes are special because they…
Hey foodie, have you ever written an open letter? You might have written few personal letters, some of them you have posted, some you kept with yourself. I am not sure how weird this is going to sound but, today I decided to write an open letter to chocolate. I felt that this one was…