Food and Spice Pairing – The Ultimate Guide
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- September
- 2013
Free-Style Cooking? Knowing the right food pairing technique is the way to go. Well, I understand that, you have already stocked your pantry with almost every ingredient that is available on earth! But, did you ever had any chance cook with them, before? Oh yeah, seasoning is endless and everyone are unique and our requirements […]
Common Seasoning Combinations To Indian Cooking
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- September
- 2013
For an authentic Indian touch, you can’t go wrong with seasoning spices. India is a home for many aromatic spices. And, its a country with more diverse cuisines, as many as 36 distinct cuisines. However, what binds this vast culinary diversity is quite simple…the insignificant quantity of the spices used in our everyday cooking. Every […]
Foodie’s Encyclopedia – Indian English Explained
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- September
- 2013
Travelers visit India are often surprised by the local jargon used by Indians. However, they rarely have difficulty talking to the natives. As most of them speak decent English. That includes the workers and laborers. This broken English slang patronized by taxi drivers, paper boys, waiters…is popularly termed as ‘Butler English’. Many do manage with […]
Indian Food Myths – Busted!!!
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- August
- 2013
A Foreigner’s Guide Indian food could be quite intriguing, exotic and healthy! Yet, its not free from myths and stereotypes of information! If you are muffled with questions about Indian food, then this article is for you. I have complied few popular myths that float around in the internet and tried to bust them! I […]
Indian Food Pyramid – Eating Well
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- May
- 2013
The Indian Food Pyramid is an outline of what we eat each day. The research based plan, developed by our country is not a rigid, hard to follow rules to shy away! Whereas, this pictorial description gives us a glimpse of a plan for a healthy life style. Well, according to the Indian food pyramid, […]
Chili Pepper Heat Ratings
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- April
- 2013
Chili peppers have been part of the human diet in the Americas since, 7500 B.C. The archaeological findings states that it was domesticated at least 6000 years ago. Christopher Columbus was one of the first Europeans to encounter it and called them ‘peppers’, because…he was pre disposed to this pungent flavor, through black peppers. In […]
Indian Restaurant Menu – A Foreigner’s Guide
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- April
- 2013
Indian Restaurants in America features almost a standard menu throughout the country. Its quite tasty, no doubt about it, but its not an accurate representation of what Indian food really is. In fact, India means diversity and it has too many regional cuisines. However, most of the restaurants in America, feature only Punjabi cuisine, a […]
Tea & Biscuits – Colonial Hangover!
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- April
- 2013
As a remnant of colonial past, we (collectively Indians in India and abroad) tend to dunk our crackers in the cup of chai, tea. These semi-sweet crackers are called biscuits in India! Some of the popular brands are Marie Gold, Parle G, Britania Milk Bikis…quintessential in every pantry, back home in India for unannounced visitors! […]
Indian Cooking Techniques – Simplified
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- April
- 2013
Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity very unique to humans. Most anthropologists believe cooking fire was first developed around 250,000 years ago. Hence forth the development of agriculture, trade, commerce and transportation! With this single new invention ‘pottery’, the cooking has expanded. Zoologist Richard Wrangham believes that cooking has made us human […]
Dinner and A Movie – Famous Food Movies List!
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- March
- 2013
Dinner and a Movie Like dinner and a movie go so well together, food could also be a theme to cinema. Since, it is so central to our lives, it stands to reason that it would be a great theme for the cinema! I have listed some of my favorite food-centered movies here (below the […]
