Food: In The Flesh
Published in Seminar, 2005 Here is a partial list of animals I have eaten over the last three decades. Goat (legs, stomach, brain, sweetbreads, kidney, liver, yes; eyes and head, […]
Category Archives: Food writing
English Vegetables, Desi Steak
Galangal and lemon grass were piled up in hillocks. The mushrooms were fresh and came in four varieties-white, dried dhingri, dried shiitake and dried, slightly dubious porcini. “Madam,” said my […]
On being fed by friends
Traditionally, it’s the women who do it. Mothers, aunts, grandmothers, wives, sisters, daughters, pouring their love and their frustrations into what they put on the plate; the extra sandesh, the […]
Food: Following Fish
(Published in the Business Standard, June 2010, in the food column) The arguments against fish are many, especially in a north Indian city like Delhi. Fish is bony — often, […]
Food: India’s national dish
(Published in Outlook, January 11, 2010. I had a wonderful sparring match with a foodie friend where we both agreed that India’s national dish should be dal–but that since there’s […]
Apologies and a nibble: English vegetables, desi steak
(Haven’t had time to update the blog for a while–my apologies. Here’s a place-holder–an essay on food, written in 2003, that I thought I’d lost. Enjoy.) Galangal and lemon grass […]
Food: Table for one
(Published in the Business Standard, November 2009) “In the same way that you should get massages and take naps or meditate, you should, everyone should, make a point to eat […]
Book review: Eat My Globe
Eat My GlobeOne Man’s Search for the Best Food in the WorldSimon MajumdarHachette, Rs 295, 278 pages “I may not be the first person to have eaten rat in China, […]
Literary orgies
(Published in the Business Standard, April 9, 2007, Speaking Volumes) It is a lowering thought, but until last week, I had spent over a decade in Delhi without receiving a […]
The Big Oyster: review
(Outlook Traveller, October 23, 2006)The Big OysterMark Kurlansky Jonathan Cape, distributed by Rupa & co, POUNDS 7.75, 307 pages If you have a sense of curiosity and a palate, you […]
