But these dishes were creatures of their time. Just as Escoffier was God’s gift to the dairy and milling industries because all his dishes required cream, butter and flour, the great Indian chefs of ...

Vir Sanghvi is the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. His career straddles print, television, books and now, new media. Vir Sanghvi was born in London in 1956 and educated at Mayo College ...

The lobster has fallen out of favour these days. Until around two decades ago, it was treated as the king of fish. When chefs planned a fancy menu, they took care to include such dishes as Lobster ...

Woodstock changed everything The truth is that most of us actually only came to terms with the rock revolution in 1971-72 when an epochal event occurred and that was Woodstock.

Few hotels spawn legends as easily as the Taj. Here’s one that I think will be repeated in all future histories of this grand hotel. According to British newspapers, one of the tourists trapped at the ...

There is a whole new generation that does not remember Krishna Menon which, I guess, is fair enough. Menon was forced out of Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet in 1962 and died in 1974. His glory years were ...

As I had warned at the time, the Ruchika Girhotra case is slowly fading from the headlines. The media have had their fortnight of excitement and the great Indian middle class has had its two weeks of ...

Regular readers of this column will be familiar with two regulars of Rude Food. The first is the great biryani hunt, which is now into its second year with disastrous consequences for my shape. And ...

I can still remember when I first met AD Singh. It was 1998 and I had been invited to moderate a session at a food summit in Bombay. On the panel were some well-known names from the food business of ...

Instead the award goes to the Delhi branch of Royal China, a London-based chain of separately-owned restaurants. There are already popular Royal Chinas in Bombay but they are not in the same league as ...

I thought Nello was the sort of place favoured by oligarchs rather than foodies and tried to dissuade him from opening a London outpost. In any event, the deal fell through. Dinesh and his partner ...