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Around the world in savoury cakes

Around the world in savoury cakes

From cauliflower cakes, sushi cakes to prawn cakes, international and regional cuisines have a range of delicious salty bakes

Machan at the Taj takes its guests for a safari — inside its kitchens!

Machan at the Taj takes its guests for a safari — inside its kitchens!

The iconic hotel at the heart of Delhi is reimagining and re-inventing the business of hospitality in creative ways

How Novotel floated its cloud kitchens

How Novotel floated its cloud kitchens

The Accor group hotel beat lockdown blues with some smart pivots

FOOD STREET Hyderabad rekindles the fire for heritage cuisine

Nothing about it is quick or simple. Meats need days of marination, spices are ground from scratch, and cooking takes hours. Yet, dishes from the Niza

Rice and shine, always

The ingredient that has hung out with the mighty stegosaurus, peered at lunar craters, and played a starring role in the story of mankind is also the

STREET, EAT, REPEAT Chivda, the mix of all things nice

The crunchy, munchy mixture was a steady companion during the lockdown

Travel Finding Mount Bromo

Indonesia’s most active volcano is a cauldron spewing sulphurous smoke, folklore and colourful traditions that keep a fuming god appeased

Bed and Breakfast A wellness break in a pandemic

Nestled in the sprawling Sahyadris, Viveda — The Wellness Village offers the rejuvenation we could all use

Food The secret art of foraging for food

Combining sustainable foraging with socially distant travel is a great way of exploring the world in the ‘new normal’

Travel Udupi unplugged

Karnataka’s best known tourist destination offers a melange of experiences across drama, faith, heritage, food and adventure for the discerning trav

street, eat, repeat Peachy idea: Cooking with fruit

An enterprising friend presents a fruit-based lunch and sets off culinary experiments for a lifetime

FOOD AROUND THE WORLD Armenia on a platter

An exotic pastiche of sorts, Armenia’s food is a subtly-influenced cuisine that retains a flavour of its own

street, eat, repeat Holy smoke!

Be it sausages, biryani or ice cream, there isn’t a dish that doesn’t benefit from the infusion of smoke

ecotourism Munsiyari’s women of mettle

The hills of Uttarakhand’s Pithoragarh district have witnessed a quiet revolution — for empowerment, employment and the environment

TUMMY TRAVELS All roads lead to Rome

The ancient Roman Empire was indeed the melting pot that absorbed flavours of the world — from the humble Indian kanji to the luscious Persian pulao

TRAVEL Samarkand shines bright

Uzbekistan’s grandest city dazzles tourists with its history, architecture and food

STREET, EAT, REPEAT Kernels of flavour

Salty, buttery, cheese coated or with maple syrup and bacon — popcorn is lending its adaptable self to gourmet experiments

TRAVEL Tagore’s summer retreat

A bungalow in Mungpoo, a village near Darjeeling, is a proud bearer of the Nobel Laureate’s memories

COFFEE CEREMONY Of beans and brew in Ethiopia

The drink that perks up the world holds a special place in the affairs of the country where it was born

TUMMY TRAVELS Old bites, new boxes

The lockdown sent millennials and WFH-ers scurrying to the home chefs and cloud kitchens for their daily bread. While social and mainstream media hail

FOOD Being vegetarian in the Maldives

Forget the tuna. The island nation will keep you full and happy with coconut, koftas and jasmine

TRAVEL/ WILDLIFE Broken Tail, and other tales

A crackling fire, a tusker and a family scandal bring together a group of fellow travellers in Kerala

STREET, EAT, REPEAT It’s crunch time

Although they match their Gujarati, South Indian and North Indian counterparts bite for bite, Maharashtrian snacks are a low-key bunch

MADIKERI Now showing: Nostalgia

The pandemic has brought the curtain down on many businesses. The uncertainty over the future of a single-screen theatre in Kodagu unboxes memories an

TRAVEL/ MEGHALAYA Pepper trail

Wild vines in the Northeast bear a special kind of pepper that may soon hit the markets

FOOD/ TREND Spread it like Biscoff

Poised to be the ‘new Nutella’, a Belgian cookie butter has social media all agog

FOOD The world on your plate

A food blogger looks back at a pandemic year and how her kitchen turned into a gateway to faraway lands

COOKBOOK/ INTERVIEW Come home to a whole meal

From taco parties to lotus root slow-cooked in yoghurt, and from khichri to barfi, a new book looks at all that is being rustled up in South Asian Mus

TUMMY TRAVELS He’s a julbord fellow

The Swedish Christmas spread comes with its share of stories and quirks. Here’s a slice

TRAVEL/ ENGLAND Caught up in Cotswolds

Spread across five counties of England, this region of undulating hills, lazy rivers and somnolent villages is filled with archaic charm

TRAVEL/ GOA-KARNATAKA DRIVE Escape route

A coastal drive, afforded by chance, also becomes the first break since the lockdown earlier this year

TRAVEL/ PRAGUE Praha, in Kafka’s company

The Czech novelist looms large over the city he barely ever mentioned in his writings

TRAVEL/ PARIS House of Shakespeare and tumbleweeds

A bookshop on Paris’s Left Bank has nurtured literature and its followers in every possible way

FOOD I’ll have the khao suey

With as many iterations as components, this Burmese dish is a well-travelled one

WEEKEND SPECIAL Meat of the matter

Chunks of mutton in a thin aromatic curry — the Bengali’s love affair with the Sunday lunch favourite has had its share of ups and downs. Yet, the

AUTHOR’S ESSAY & BOOK EXCERPT Colaba chronicles

Perched at the tip of Mumbai, Colaba — as we know it today — has had a fascinating journey that spans three centuries. A writer who has spent her

WILD ENCOUNTER IN HIMACHAL The spectre of Surajpur

A leopard that strikes fear in a Himalayan valley and awe in the heart of a visitor

Of conifers and cheesecake

A day in Christchurch, under the Kiwi sun, combines culinary and natural gems

INDIA ON WORKCATION The whole (wild) works

Hundreds of corporate executives are taking their offices — and families — to the jungles of India, adding a new dimension to mixing business with