This is a companion list but it deals with the meals I ate outside the country. Dharshan Munidasa is Sri Lanka’s greatest chef with restaurants all over the world. And while I have eaten Dharshan’s ...

Nevertheless here is a list of some of the best meals I ate in India this year. I have excluded street food, delivery food and meals cooked by such visiting superstars as Massimo Bottura.

That’s probably why most educated Indians can’t name the last three mayors of New York City. The only mayor who may have some name recognition is Rudolph Guiliani who, in the post 9/11 phase achieved ...

The second largest selling branded medication in India is already Mounjaro, the rival to the better known Ozempic; both of ...

How do you like your food? All together? Or one by one? It may seem like a stupid question but, in many ways, it holds the key to a country’s cuisine. In the West, they tend to eat their food one by ...

And finally: it’s good to see a cookbook that recognises the importance of restaurant dishes but is focused on the best Indian dishes; the ones we eat at home every day.

And so travel for me now is a foodie adventure. Nearly everywhere I go, I try and eat the local food, even in places where I don’t speak the local language and nobody speaks a word of English.

Either Dubai changed (which it has) or I have (more likely) or a combination of both. My wife, whose views on Dubai used to ...

Do you know where the kulcha originated? If the answer is no, then relax. Nobody really does. All the usual suspects have often been cited. The kulcha may be named after a Persian biscuit which has a ...

The first time I had an authentic Peking Duck in India was at the Great Wall restaurant at the Leela Palace in Mumbai twenty years ago. I was having lunch with Captain CP Krishnan Nair, the Leela ...

Very rarely does a really crack team come together to open a new hotel. It happened in 1978 when the Taj group opened its first Delhi hotel on Man Singh Road, packing it with the best Taj employees ...

Hell hath no fury like an idli scorned. A British academic found this out the hard way. Asked to respond to a questionnaire about food preferences Ed Anderson replied candidly that he thought the idli ...