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
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
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
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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