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		<title>A tale of two restaurants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What turns a restaurant into a phenomenon? It’s tempting to answer that everything depends on the food but I can think of scores of successful restaurants in India where I wouldn’t eat dinner even if you paid me to. I guess that it is a complex combination of factors and there is no single successful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/rude-food/2009/11/16/a-tale-of-two-restaurants/</link>
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		<title>All you wanted to know about truffles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a measure of how much eating out habits in India have changed that whereas when I first wrote about truffles, readers were bemused, these days truffles crop up on menu after menu. It is, I guess, also a measure of how much more we are prepared to spend on restaurant meals compared to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/rude-food/2009/11/08/all-you-wanted-to-know-about-truffles/</link>
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		<title>Fire and ice on a platter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Baked Alaska was one of the great show-off desserts of the 1970s (and perhaps the 1980s). Unfortunately, chefs don’t bother with it much these days.
At university, we were divided first, into colleges, and then, within the college, into staircases marking the blocks where we actually lived. Each staircase had about a dozen undergraduates and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/rude-food/2009/10/28/fire-and-ice-on-a-platter/</link>
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		<title>Continental shift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the old days, long before we had speciality restaurants, we had all-purpose restaurants that stayed open all day and served every kind of cuisine. In Bombay, such restaurants lined both sides of Churchgate Street. In Delhi, they were scattered all over Connaught Place.
If you went to Gaylord in Bombay for instance (or in Delhi, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/rude-food/2009/10/11/continental-shift/</link>
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		<title>A truly international dessert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kheer is the greatest rice pudding in the world, an international dessert combining three cooking traditions: India, the Middle East and the West.
Can you think of a dessert that is truly international? One contender would be bread pudding, which turns up in various guises (shahi tukra, bread and butter pudding etc. all over the world [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/rude-food/2009/10/07/a-truly-international-dessert/</link>
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		<title>All that you wanted to know about fried rice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Chinese food, I judge restaurants by their fried rice. If a kitchen can’t turn out a good fried rice, the rest of the food will be pretty lousy too.
Different people have different ways of judging a restaurant. Some Europeans will tell you that the true test of a kitchen is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/rude-food/2009/09/27/all-that-you-wanted-to-know-about-fried-rice/</link>
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		<title>Tasty Triangles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The samosa is the archetypal Indian snack. You can have hot samosas with your tea or you can have them cold, several hours after they have been made. You can have your samosas filled with spicy keema or you can have totally vegetarian versions filled with potatoes, paneer or even peas and French beans. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/rude-food/2009/09/13/tasty-triangles/</link>
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		<title>To serve with love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote last week about how deluxe hotels often ignore the food and beverage needs of their guests. I ended the column with a rant about room service. And this week, that rant continues…
Local Food: I accept that it is not always a good idea for hotels to open restaurants serving the local cuisine.There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/rude-food/2009/09/07/to-serve-with-love/</link>
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		<title>Food for thought</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last time I wrote about the things that frequent travellers wanted from hotels – and rarely got – I ended with a threat: I would be returning to the subject with further installments.
This week, I am going to focus on hotel food. Because India is still to develop a full-fledged restaurant culture, it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/rude-food/2009/09/01/food-for-thought/</link>
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		<title>As silly as it is expensive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is nothing more offensive than food that is famed, not for its taste, but for its price. All over the world, chefs try and get into the newspapers by inventing absurdly expensive dishes usually featuring such luxury items as truffles or caviar.
When even these ingredients don’t push the price to a level that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/rude-food/2009/08/26/as-silly-as-it-is-expensive/</link>
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