Eating through a Gujarati feast at Rangoli…all in the name of foodie market research.
Some of you may have got a whiff of my latest whimsical idea through this blog’s facebook page, but if
What do you do when you’ve grown too many tomatoes in your backyard?
There’s no way a wonderful problem like that would ever be my own doing. I have a black thumb, if
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The little white knight that helped me peel the potatoes last Friday
I know children love playing around with dough, or licking bowls streaked with chocolate cake batter [points at self vigorously],
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Al Ammor. Serving up Egyptian comfort foods that call out to the little girl in me.
A mournful note on 31.08.2013: Al Ammor – all three branches of it in Abu Hail – has shut its
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If I had only one morning left in Dubai, I would eat…
…a za’atar with cheese manosheeh. Not just any manoosheh of course, but one from the Lebanese chain called Breakfast To
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Braving the storm with mouthfuls of chaat .
I’ve made many a trip to India as I was growing up. And on every one of those trips, every
FareStart, Seattle – changing the world, one yummy bite at a time.
I’d heard a ton about FareStart before coming to Seattle. In a nutshell, they train the homeless and disadvantaged to
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Greek food at Snack Taverna, West Village NYC
I’ve always been particularly terrible at delegating work, decisions or anything of the sort to friends or co-workers…especially when it
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Things that made me go mmm… in Mumbai
(part 2)
…continuing on from my last post on some of my most memorable foodie experiences in Mumbai. Dahi batata puri at
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(part 2)
Indian Thali at Chetana’s in Mumbai
The concept of Thali – which literally means plate, typically a round steel plate with tiny steel bowls arranged around