Recently, I visited a big fat wedding. It was one wedding that left all the guests speechless. The ambience was simply ‘wow’ and the food out of the world. As for me it was the food that bowled me over. The platter was both, vegetarian and non vegetarian. The chilli chicken, the achari baingan, the...
It’s the battle of the sexes revisited. And the battlefield is the kitchen. So, the question that interests us all. Men or women, who are better cooks? Feminists will declare that it’s women who dominate the kitchen, and men would definitely beg to differ. So, what’s the verdict, who wins ? Let’s do a case...
Who’s a gourmet ? In layman terms, a ‘foodie’. Someone exclaimed that there is no love sincerer than the love for food and a gourmet would agree. Period. In fact, foodie or not, eating and cooking form a major part of our daily routine. Go to any household and this is one subject that rules...
I always wanted to learn cooking. My first teacher was my mother. Whenever I saw my mother toil in the kitchen, I knew this is what I wanted to do. Those were the 90s I am talking about. My mother was a out of the world cook. Even dad was a good cook. Infact all...
Being a working woman, it is but anyone’s guess that what type of cook I must be. One of my uncles told me that my cuisines resembled a ‘railway catering’ type of cooking. Those were my teens. And now I am a woman in my early 30s. And proud to announce that my cooking has...
Cooking, most people think as an easy process, but this is one discipline or art or whatever you wanna call it, that requires the hand of an expert. Cooking is one art that has got commercialised of late. Cooking , however has always existed ever since the beginning of civilisation. Cooking , in the earlier...
Cooking is something that most of the people think of to be an easy process. But, the fact of the matter is that cooking is a complex procedure that requires lot of physical and mental stamina. Cooking, if looked with a wide perspective is a violent process for it involves lot of grinding, pounding, and...
Culinary schools are a new concept in India. Culinary, according to many people is a new phenomenon . But, the fact of the matter is that our country that is India, always had the rich tradition of khansamas who were cooks in the rich families and could cook some amazing food.The royal cooks or the...
Let’s face it…cooking is not an easy job. With all the mixing, grinding, heating involved, it involves lot of physical as well as mental stamina. And this is one fact that I got to learn quite late in life. Till my early teens, like any normal teenager I thought cooking was a child’s play. So,...
It’s the battle of the sexes again. But, the playground is the kitchen this time. So, the age old question…who’s the better cook? Men or the fairer gender? Let’s have a closer look…. Early men were supposed to be hunters, womenfolk took care of the household and the children and this is what the history...
