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Dinner Table Settings – Good House Keeping
- 08
- May
- 2013
In the recent years, casual dining and more and more informal eating habits has become a trend. Most of them are comfortable having their meals in front of the Television sets or computers! I don’t blame anyone!! Well, in today’s fast-paced life…who has time to set a table and let alone have a meaningful conversation? […]
Kitchen Pharmacy – Spicy Remedies
- 05
- May
- 2013
Centuries ago, the mere taste for spice kindled international trade, sparked voyages of discovery and triggered the wars on want! Yep, for thousands of years, spices have been valued so much…used as flavoring agents, medicines, aphrodisiacs, perfumes, dyes and even as weapons. While spices could be characterized by their distinct aroma and pungent flavors; they […]
Indian Food Pyramid – Eating Well
- 02
- 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
- 30
- 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
- 29
- 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!
- 11
- 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
- 03
- 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 […]
Rustic Kitchen Still Cooks – Equipments & Gear
- 25
- March
- 2013
Like any other art, cooking requires patience, practice and the right tools and equipment. There are hundreds of different kitchen gadgets available in the market and some variations on all of them! Although the great cooks will tell you, all they need is just these five basic things to cook…a sharp knife, a pot, a […]
The Zodiac Diet – Menu Ideas!
- 20
- March
- 2013
Every one are so different, when it comes to our food preferences! Some people like hot and spicy meals, while others crave for chilled desserts and some cannot stand the smell of spices! Yep, its very hard to please everyone in the dinner table. So, if you wanna fix a dinner and clueless what would […]
My Favorite Song – A Tribute to Food Lovers
- 12
- March
- 2013
Enna Samaiyalo – Tamil Song Ilaiyaraaja (The Maestro) has once again proved himself has a great composer and lyricist in this song. If you are a Tamilian or know little bit of Tamil, I am positive you can enjoy this song…where Swaram (music ) and Aksharam (words) rhythmically sound very close to each other and […]
