To India, via Paris’s Le Passage Brady
In spite of French presence in India for a couple of centuries, trying to find Indian curry in France tends …
Tag Archives: India
East is East and West is West: Pondicherry and French Curry
In Pondicherry, Pondichéry, or Puducherry as it is now called again (since 2006), you still see streets sparkling with old …
Idylls of Cuisine, #74
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation. See also "India Asks, Should Food be a Right for the Poor?"]
The British Melting Pot
I recently ran across these books, mentioned on an interesting British Web site providing glimpses and glances at cookbooks published …
To Balance, Strength, Love, Faith, and Hope:* Jehangir Mehta’s Mantra
Reflecting the ayurvedic principle of balance, chef Jehangir Mehta’s cookbook, Mantra: The Rules of Indulgence (2008), carries the imaginative use …
“Curry & Rice” on Forty Plates: The British Raj Encore
In 1859, George Francklin Atkinson, a captain of the Bengal Engineers and a writer of some imagination as well as …
Mrs. Beeton Goes to India
English women going out to colonial India packed cookbooks in their steamer trunks. Among the many possible tomes available, Mrs. …
Idylls of Cuisine #27
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Cooking for the British Raj: The Englishwoman’s Dilemma
The British Raj, not just restricted to India but also to parts of East Africa, embodied the male-dominant culture of …
Cooks of the British Raj: In the Shadows of the Cantonments
Moonlight, shadows, and frangipani fluttering in air rich with the smell of curry — many people today might harbor such …
