On the turquoise hued French Riviera sit the beautiful cities of Nice and Cannes huddled next to each other and welcome travellers with beautiful beaches , chic shopping, exceptional art museums, gastronomic delight and atmospheric cafes and open air markets. Nice is the nicest with beaming sun, pebbled beach, Mediterranean sea,belle époque with old world italian charm and a […]
Someone asked me today who is your favourite chef? Well the answer to that is rather elaborate. But to pick one, the answer would certainly be Mr Ismail Merchant.The man who inspired me quite a lot in my growing years for understanding heuristics in food.. I am a software engineer and working on google is […]
But behind all your stories is always your mother’s story, because hers is where yours begins.― Mitch Albom, For One More Day Us & Hair There are uncountable people who live in the present while I still breathe from my past. I was blessed with Dark, lustrous, thick tassels. On the contrary my mother had thin,curly, thick […]
Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It’s not about nutrients and calories. It’s about sharing. It’s about honesty. It’s about identity. – Louise Fresco This is a food blog which shares recipes from around the world powered by the mega power of internet and massive search algorithms of google, it reaches your […]
I love history… everything is inspired by history, so that’s why I love vintage and antiques.- Kelly Wearstler Bits & Bobs I was always a prehistoric kid ever since my childhood. I remember picking up all sorts of shaped, coloured stones, broken earthen ware from the roads and riversides. I would collect them and tell my […]
Lavender & Provençal My spring started with a quick hush-hush visit to the Provençal district of the French Rivera. If I may mention few of the highlights of my trip then the beautiful beaches, chic shopping, gastronomic delight, atmospheric cafes and open air markets cannot go without mention. You transcend into a different galaxy altogether. Keeping the […]
Today’s recipe takes me to the days when glossy advertisements for alcohol were allowed on national television. Without glorifying the consumption of liquor I will stick to my memories. With no pre-conditioned notion of what Bacardi was, I just kept humming this reggae day in and day out. One day my mother got hold of […]
The story today is titled “Shadow” which is widely accepted as negative space and lies in the person’s subconscious mind. I am somewhere in between the right and wrong of shadow and would like to present my story. My mother had this weird obsession of starting my fundamental education from an Anglo indian teacher. She […]
This Mother’s day I was rather melancholic and brooding over things I do not have anymore. The futility of human nature is we always sought anchorage from a ship which is already drifted afar. Its been so many years since I lost my mother but her absence still haunts me.I am yet to see her […]
Mobile street hawker Who is a mobile street hawker ? A vendor of merchandise consisting of inexpensive items, handicrafts or foods that are native to the area. Often accompanied by music, ringing of a bell, loud street cries or chants which churns the yearning of millions of toddlers all over the world. In England we have the ice cream vans […]