Anoothi Vishal

If there was an award for the most popular snack, not chef, the samosa would emerge a worthy winner. Its Indian popularity aside, it is one of the most globalised …

I was on a vegan cruise on the Ganga recently, aboard a ship called the Ganges Voyager owned by the company Antara River Cruises focussed on special interest travel. As …

As India and Greece renew their civilisational ties with renewed purpose just now, it is apt to look at how ancient Indian food and ingredients influenced ancient Greek culinary traditions …

One of the most nuanced heritage cuisines of India is Avadhi — and though it is also one of the most popular cuisines these days, the taste of true Avadhi …

Regardless of whether you are still buying tomatoes, switching to purees which contain just around 40 per cent of the fruit, or ruing the price rise, fact is that the …

In Edinburgh, where, this summer, more Indian travellers are visible than ever before, one attraction — apart from all the writerly and theatrical traditions of the city as also the …

Mango and jackfruit are both indigenous to the Indian subcontinent. In our home in Lucknow, the two marked the beginning of long, hot holidays, when the solstice and monsoons were …

From the most delicate gyozas in Gion, to the fun izakayas of Hiroshima—a city that has transformed its tragic past to become quite the nightlife hub, to the modern sushiyas …

I was in London recently, curating a food pop up around India and UK ties in the run up to the coronation of King Charles this May. India and the …

With interest in India’s culinary culture at an all-time high, it is now amply clear to audiences both domestically and globally that “curry” does not exist in Indian cuisines. Instead, …

Of the many Holi delights that you may have indulged in recently, the oldest is possibly the malpua. Malpua is often regarded as the precursor to the more pervasive gulab …

At Shaharnama, a literary festival supported by Rajasthan Tourism and the Prabha Khaitan Foundation, where I was a speaker recently along with two of the leading lights of Indian restaurants, …

Last week, viewers of Shark Tank India would have seen a rather unusual pitch win—by a Delhi restaurant chain, Daryaganj, whose founder’s grandfather was ostensibly the chef who invented butter …

Plant Proteins is a big trend the world over today with an increasing number of millennial and Gen Z consumers turning to it for both health and environmental reasons. In …

This Makar Sankranti, the harvest festival marking an end to winters as the “sun enters Capricorn”, and celebrated all over India in different ways—from pongal to bihu and khichdi—you may …

The three Magi as they are called are an important part of all Christmas Nativity traditions, and often described as the three wise men of the “east” or the three …

Amongst all the Colonial powers that established rule in India, the earliest to arrive and the last to depart were the Portuguese in Goa. Vasco da Gama had found a …

Right in the heart of Singapore’s busy commercial district, home to many highly-paid expat Indians these days, is Lau Pa Sat, a popular hawker’s centre with street food to satisfy …

Before the generic laddoo, barfi, fusion chocolate-, coffee-, raspberry-, blueberry-laced mithai that we are now forced to confront on festivals like Diwali, Indian mithai was a unique tradition of sweets …

One of the most common mistakes people, particularly foreigners not particularly acquainted with the diversity of Indian cuisines, make is to mistake spicy for chilli, and stereotype all Indian food …

As England, and some of the world, has stood riveted by the rituals of mourning around the death of queen Elizabeth II, and questions as to the relevance of the …