We had promised you that we will bring you the Nizamuddin 11…here they are. After training classes that lasted six weeks, the pop up by Zaika-e-Nizamuddin with ForkTales finally happened in March, 2018. After working with them and knowing them for more than a month, this event, in my heart and mind, was not just…
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Continue ReadingGhee is sacred : Ghee is unhealthy. Ghee is celebrated : Ghee is fattening. There are too many sides to the arguments on ghee. Let me here put in my bit on ghee – it is fragrant. It is delicious (may be not as delicious as butter but this is a personal choice). It makes…
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Continue ReadingHayastan or Armenia was the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as it’s official religion in 301 AD. The Armenians played an important role in world history as merchants and power brokers. In India, the oldest reference to an Armenian dates back to the year 780 CE, when an Armenian merchant named Thomas…
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Continue ReadingThe afternoon sun in Delhi is already showing it’s true colour after being subdued by an extended winter. It is not long before it will be impossible to imagine that Delhi was cold a few months back and it will be cold again, though not sometime soon! The diet in this period of changing seasons…
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Continue ReadingWe all have a few dishes that we ran fastest from and with age we crave for them. It isn’t any surprise that most of these are dishes were fed to us in the name of health and nutrition! Which young mind ever thinks it will get sick and old one day!!! But nostalgia and…
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Continue ReadingGora Sahib’s Table A time travel into India’s colonial past amidst world’s largest tea growing region. October 6 &7, 2019 Day 1: You will land in Jorhat – one of the important urban centres of Assam – which was the last capital of the mighty, warrior Ahom Kings in 18 Century BC; in 1824…
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Continue ReadingMedieval India was an exciting place for food lovers. It was during this period that texts in regional languages and Sanskrit first started including ‘Supashastra’ or cooking sciences as a stand-alone chapter. One of the most extensive and only the second instance of it is the encyclopedic treatise – Manasollasa – by King Somesvara III…
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Continue ReadingLet me tell you that the photos are really old but I really wanted to post this. There is a fascination that I have with recipes from temples and recipes from royal kitchens . This is owing to the fact that these are places where only the best was served, documented and preserved. The quest…
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Continue ReadingPatishapta is a story to pass on to coming generations, lot of memories to hold on to and a personal experience for me. Such was my father’s love for this deceptively simple looking dessert that I often suspect that if there is anything in this world that my mother felt jealous of, it must have…
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Continue Readinghave been thinking that I should post a few Hilsa recipes before the ‘Ilish season’ ends…and this is it. This recipe is from Renuka Debi Choudhurani’s book – Rokomari Aamish Ranna. It uniquely combines Hilsa and chana daal. It is beautiful to look at, it is rich, fragrant and one of the best Hilsa recipes…
