The Emirates Airline Literature Festival took place from March 8 to March 12 2011 in Dubai. When I found out that Madhur Jaffrey, the prolific cookbook author, would be demonstrating her skills in a live cooking demo, I simply had to go. When I arrived there, her book, ‘Curry Easy’ was flying off the tables…
Month: March 2011
The Gujju snack that is khandvi
That image up there…is a plateful of khandvi. How do you get that? Honestly? I have no idea. Yes, I watched my Mom make it while I snapped away, but I’m terrible when it comes to remembering what she actually did. I need to write recipes down step-for-step before being able to re-create them on…
Chef Interview: Vineet Bhatia
Perhaps the celebrity culture is so ingrained into our psyche that we’d expect a chef who has won two Michelin stars to be nothing less than a diva. And then we meet Chef Vineet Bhatia, perhaps one of the most down-to-earth celebrities that scatter the earth. He was one among the many celebrity via the-nri.com…
RAW Coffee Company, I pledge eternal love to thee
After proclaiming RAW to be my find of Taste of Dubai 2011, it would have been remiss of me not to visit their one-and-only outlet at the Dubai Garden Centre on Sheikh Zayed Road. I organized a food blogger outing and a few members of our group showed up for our caffeine fix (shout out…
Indulgence: Sugar Daddy’s cupcakes
Nom, nom, nom. Bought 6 cupcakes from Sugar Daddy’s and followed their website instructions not to put them in the fridge at the end of the day, but to store them in airtight containers at room temperature instead. Spot on. I’d bought cupcakes from here a long time back and stuck them in the fridge…
Blue Birthday Cake
Just a look at the birthday cake we’d gotten for my brother to take to school on his special day. Mr Baker hasn’t gone wrong yet. Very reliable.
Taste of Dubai 2011
See the full gallery on Posterous A festival! All about food! What kind of insane food blogger would I be if I didn’t go? So I toddled off to Taste of Dubai 2011 on the first day (3rd March) to check out the foodie delights that I hoped awaited within. After making it past the entertainment and rides…
Rapid fire with Chef Vineet Bhatia
Before the lovely Taste of Dubai 2011 festival, the participating chefs were generous enough to answer a round of quick questions for their foodie fans. Here we have Chef Vineet Bhatia’s answers, with whom I even managed to have a one-on-one personal chat on other matters later. That riveting account will be online soon! Till…
Frog & Parrot
Pub food is, for the most part, pretty decent. It’s not gourmet five-star fare sure, but if you choose the right ones, you get palatable food in very good portions, considering what you pay. This pub, Frog & Parrot, is located on Division Street in Sheffield, and is one of those pubs that I’d say…
FooDee 