– NEW YORK Don’t let Shaineal Shah’s baby face fool you. Under that sweet, innocent demeanor is a shrewd businessman whose mind is focused on new proposals, taste-testing, pairing foods and contemplating flavor combinations. Shah, 24, is the owner of Xocolatti, a chocolate boutique in the trendy neighborhood of SoHo in New York City.
As the country gears up to celebrate its 63rd Republic Day, hotels in this city are set to welcome guests with enticing special menus and dishes in the three colours of the national flag. Senior chefs in the kitchen at Hotel Transit in Vile Parle in northwest Mumbai have donned their white toques and are buzzing to pay a culinary tribute to a meal splashed with saffron, white and green colours.
India is a mouth-watering gold mine of indigenous food with over 20,000 documented traditional recipes that have at least 200 varieties of dosas, the signature pancake from south India that has taken the world by storm, says celebrity chef Hemant Oberoi who recently came out with his first book "Masala Art". "Kerala, Goa, Maharashtra... the regional cuisine of India is so rich.
Sixteen professional chefs -- eight each from India and Pakistan -- will battle it out for culinary supremacy on a new food reality show "Foodistan". The highly talented chefs will represent their country's rich and exquisite cuisine, and will be seen competing with each other in the 26-part series, going on air on NDTV Good Times Jan 26.
Indian actress of French descent Kalki Koechlin loves to gorge on street food every time she is in the capital. "I love Delhi for its food, I love the street food, the momos, the kebabs... I love the north Indian food," the 28-year-old actress said here at the Good Food awards function. Kalki's slim frame is certainly deceptive as she is quite a foodie like her husband, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap.
China chaat to pomfret roast and chicken Afghani to the Lebanese shawarma - fusion food is pushing new cross-cultural frontiers on the festival platter of Chittaranjan Park, the micro-Kolkata of the cosmopolitan capital. Cuisines of the world are clamouring for attention in their Indian "masala" avatar in this south Delhi locality. They have been liberally spiced to arouse the 'desi' taste buds.
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) Acclaimed Australian restaurateur, traveller, chef and writer Christine Manfield says unlike in the West, people in India live and breathe food and points out how different types of cuisines happily coexist in this country, promoting a culture of tolerance. "People live and breathe food unlike in the West.
