Curious Season

WITH BARFI, YOU CAN EAT WITH YOUR EYES

From phoolgobi and phal, to mewa and mawa – writer Priya Mani traces the journey of our beloved meetha. My earliest memories consist of making coconut barfi with my Amma as her little helper. She would start the process by breaking a coconut and scraping off pure white shreds of coconut meat. After which she […]

ROYAL SHOWBIZ

The stories of nawabi khana, from battlefield to dastarkhwan. That the shahi dastarkhwans, or the cuisines of the royal courts of pre-Independence India lean towards ostentatiousness is a narrative we are well-versed with. One doesn’t have to look too far to be told and retold legends like the wildly popular, if surreal case of the […]