Some of the best Four Seasons properties are in Italy including the stunning FS Florence and the San Domenico in Taormina ...

Well it’s one more example of how much things are changing at the top of India’s food scene. Once upon a time chefs followed ...

Besides, we all accept that the normal rules of free speech may be restricted in cases of terrorism. For instance most TV channels around the world will refuse to telecast videos made by such groups ...

The NDA landslide in Bihar defies the expectations of all but the most optimistic exit polls. That the alliance would win was ...

Most bar food all over the world is finger food so you get kababs, sausages, small masala prawns (a Bombay favourite from decades ago) and the like. Now junk sushi rolls are the finger food of choice ...

In the case of the latest Delhi attack judging by the little that we know, this was, ironically enough, a tragic consequence of an intelligence triumph.

Nevertheless here is a list of some of the best meals I ate in India this year. I have excluded street food, delivery food and meals cooked by such visiting superstars as Massimo Bottura.

Let’s take a break from politics this week and talk about something that will at some stage affect most, if not all of us, but which is rarely discussed in opinion columns. All of us know that many (I ...

It took me ten years to learn to love Dubai. In the beginning I simply did not warm to it and all the descriptions that the city’s haters had used seemed appropriate: too much bling, vulgar, shallow, ...

Hell hath no fury like an idli scorned. A British academic found this out the hard way. Asked to respond to a questionnaire about food preferences Ed Anderson replied candidly that he thought the idli ...

Most modern Indian cities strive to rise above ethnicity. Tell anybody who lives in Bombay that he lives in a Maharashtrian city and (unless of course, you are speaking to Bal Thackeray) he will take ...

Suppose you run a successful restaurant. Not only is it profitable, but it is regularly hailed as India’s best restaurant. It wins every award that matters. Culinary Culture gives it the top rating of ...