It was a dif­fer­ent expe­ri­ence in Mum­bai this time around – we played tourists to the hilt. When you live in a city, I think you tend to miss a lot of things – fine details you don’t really notice as you rush about your daily work. Like that lovely Church behind Fort where I worked for a year or so – why had I never seen it? The beau­ti­ful old her­itage build­ings in Kalaghoda and Fort – never looked at them closely before. I had lit­tle time to stand and stare back then. 

So it was only May end/beginning of June that I was down with a cold and got these use­ful home reme­dies. I’ve barely got over that bout (or so it seems!) and I am down with a cold again. Gosh, how I hate them! 
I was going through a recent Dec­can Her­ald where I found these useful […]

I had an oppor­tu­nity to sam­ple some great Parsi fare a cou­ple of week­ends ago. I had read about it in a news­pa­per and archived it for future ref­er­ence. And then when we were look­ing for a place to eat in Indi­rana­gar, I sud­denly remem­bered my archived ref­er­ence. I went there for the first time and then the fol­low­ing week­end : that should tell you a lot about how much I liked the food! 

In my per­fect world, I will be sur­rounded by a lot of teapots of vary­ing shapes and sizes. There will be cups of tea in dif­fer­ent flavours wait­ing to be tasted, tea strain­ers, tea pots, ket­tles and the intox­i­cat­ing smell of the dark brew everywhere. 

“You’ve never been to Food Street?”
I could hear dis­be­lief in Badri’s voice when I replied in the neg­a­tive. 
It’s true. I’ve never been there. Never had the chance. And besides, no one’s ever sug­gested meet­ing at Food Street before. 

So on Sun­day evening, a few of us got together and decided on a ren­dezvous at this place.

A review of the newly opened Oh Calcutta

Being a fish (and food) lover, it doesn’t take much to entice me for a meal. Espe­cially a Ben­gali meal, since it’s the clos­est I can get to an Assamese meal. I am on a sort of cook­ing sab­bat­i­cal, so find­ing new restau­rants to try out also helps a lot. 

Tea hap­pens to be my favourite bev­er­age. Over the years, I’ve dis­posed off the need for milk (and sugar in most cases) to get the real taste of tea. I read this yes­ter­day while brows­ing through a book and liked it so much, I made a note of it: “Tea is quiet and […]

Into day 2 of my Fort Kochi break. Chilled out a lit­tle on day 1 and walked around a bit. I had a list of things on my agenda but decided that I wasn’t going to push myself! 
Today, I had a few inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tions includ­ing one with some­one who has been involved with main­tain­ing the […]