Hindustan Times
The other day, one of my lunch partners, Varghese George, Delhi Political Bureau Chief of the Hindustan Times, triumphantly placed a jar of beef pickle on the table.
Like most of us, George, an amiable, award-winning journalist from a little village (only 5,000 souls) called Puramattom in God’s own country, 100 km south of Kochi, did not get the pickle from mamma. He made the pickle himself on a recent visit home. Read more
(15 votes, average: 4.07 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 6:51 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged beef pickle, Kochi, Varghese George
I have one of those Patiala-made cooking ranges—if the grill or oven is fired up, you touch its surfaces or knobs with bare hands at your peril. Read more
(8 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged chicken, cooking, cooking range, fish, Old Monk rum, Patiala, Patiala gas engineers, rum
I hate to admit this in public, but there’s no running away from it.
My father-in-law always says—in the admiring manner that an Indian father-in-law reserves for his favourite son-in-law, “No, no, Samar, you’re a gourmet!” Read more
(7 votes, average: 3.57 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged daily bread, Food, samar
