Airports: Ninety per cent of the pain of travelling comes from airports not from aircraft.

He was reprimanded later and Atlantis no longer has those kinds of policies. But my point is that he couldn’t have been ...

More crucially, after several former Indian cricketers boycotted the match against Pakistan in the ongoing World Championship of Legends tournament, should we participate in the forthcoming Asia Cup ...

Though we don’t often admit it, most Indians are always a little annoyed by the global tendency to treat our food as a cheap and cheerful ethnic cuisine. That characterisation is probably the legacy ...

Sometimes you can go weeks without encountering a good chef or a memorable meal. And sometimes, you can meet two unusual and gifted chefs within hours on the same day. Last week, in Mumbai, I met two ...

Prannoy and I broke up Musharraf’s little love-fest with Indian editors and the breakfast ended on a sour note. So did the Agra summit itself, a little later. That was the sum total of my interactions ...

We can date the invention of the chorizo sausage, Spain’s greatest gastronomic gift to the world, because it uses pimentón, a powdered dried chilli that is often smoked. So we know that it must be ...

Almost everyone you speak to will tell you that the London of today is not the same as the London of ten years ago. What that means depends mostly on who it is you are speaking to. If you speak to ...

Every person of Indian origin who becomes the head of a Western company is celebrated in a manner that suggests that his or her success is part of the Indian re-awakening orchestrated by the Modi ...

But these dishes were creatures of their time. Just as Escoffier was God’s gift to the dairy and milling industries because all his dishes required cream, butter and flour, the great Indian chefs of ...

I tracked him down to Singapore where Vir Kotak, his partner and backer (in the Tangra Project and at a flourishing cloud kitchen operation) lives. Kotak and his foodie wife Simran have almost ...

For the most part, Arabs are not particularly annoyed to see their food spread everywhere. As Anissa Helou points out in her masterly work on the food of the Islamic world, Feast, we find dishes with ...