A few weeks ago, I wrote in praise of fish and chips. Something in the article intrigued a reader, KS Narayanan, who divides his time between Delhi and Bombay and reads Brunch in both cities. I guessed that it was not all my research about frying fish that had interested Mr Narayanan because he is the managing director of McCain in India. Read more

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My favourite cocktail joke comes from Brunch. It appeared in High Spirits, a column that Bhaichand Patel used to write for this magazine. The joke goes something like this: What do you do if you are shipwrecked on a desert island but have been fortunate enough to be washed onshore with part of the ship’s bar? Read more

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I woke up in a strange hotel room last Sunday and reached for my morning paper. Bleary-eyed, I worked out that I wasn’t at home, wasn’t even in India and that therefore, I would not get to see that week’s Brunch. Well, yes and no. Read more

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A couple of months ago, I suggested on these pages, that the old rules for Chinese restaurants in India were dying. We’d seen Sichuan (and its offshoot: Sino-Ludhianvi). We’d seen the next wave of Pan-Asian restaurants (India Jones in Bombay the many ITC places etc.). And, now we were ready for the new generation. Read more

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