Hindustan Times
(Starting today, you will find a version of this blog in “Lounge”, the weekend edition of “Mint”, which I think is the best business paper in India. They asked me to start a column based on “My Daily Bread”. There will, of course, be much more online than in print. Disclaimer: The editor of Lounge is my wife, but no, she didn’t ask me to write)
How do you get your children interested in cooking, especially your sons? Read more
(7 votes, average: 4.86 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Friday, March 20, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged cook, egg, kitchen, meat loaf, mothers, onions, parsleym olive, security guards, tomato
I am in a suitably mellow Bangalore frame of mind.
The entire family has spent the evening in the neighbourhood patch of green—Richards Park—listening to a band of the Madras Sappers under a canopy of stately rain trees in a pavilion that dates back to 1925. We tapped our feet, grinned at the group of rowdy 50-something women who excitedly snapped their fingers and tapped their toes when the poker-faced sappers played “Shalala in the evening, Shalala in the morning…” and later spent a peaceful evening with our neighbours as a light wind whispered through Richards Park and rain-tree blossoms fell at our feet. Read more
(3 votes, average: 3.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Sunday, March 15, 2009 at 1:04 am
Filed under Food · Tagged bangalore, cook, Food, grandmother, Richards Park
I am really quite reticent about my cooking.
No, really. I am.
My wife, friends and parents believe I’m more than a decent cook. “Oh, he’s a great cook,” they say with no great impartiality. Read more
(8 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Thursday, February 12, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged cook, Gulbarga, hot-plate, King, meals, Omlette, onion peels, Spanish omlette
