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The Seven Series: Greed

The Seven Series: Greed

The fourth crippling sin, Greed, spares no one when embraced A want, need and liking are a part of one’s...
Potato, Potatoe – one and the same

Potato, Potatoe – one and the same

It’s very awkward to be caught in a situation where you have to choose between two polarities but return to...
Eat humble pie

Eat humble pie

You erred; you wish you hadn’t said something; you created a fuse which blew up and then what? … Do...
The Baker and our daily bread

The Baker and our daily bread

I am gazing out into the azure sky, perched on the ledge of my balcony at home, watching the fierce...
The Apple of my eye

The Apple of my eye

What is the one thing that binds a person to existence? If you guessed “Life”, then you are wrong. Life...
The Several Sevens

The Several Sevens

Lately with Mumbai going abuzz with it’s Restaurant Week where one could pick and choose a set meal in participating...
Dinner with Friends

Dinner with Friends

If someone asks me how I got about to cook, it was purely for the love of entertaining. I look...
Quarks Community

Quarks Community

One of the two fundamental particles in the Universe is called a Quark, the basic building blocks for the universe...
Beet It

Beet It

One of the most difficult words to say is the word ‘No’. Coming from a country whose culture is extremely...
Health Benedict

Health Benedict

I get this line a lot – You don’t look like a foodie ! or a person who is in...
The Base Factor

The Base Factor

All it takes is a few basic ingredients and you can mold anything to your liking. Yes this statement holds...
Sweet Revenge

Sweet Revenge

It’s a cut throat world out there, be it any industry. I don’t say I have come up the hard...
Layered Dependency

Layered Dependency

I have been born with a golden spoon in my mouth. In lay man words ‘spoilt’. I have all the...
Beat the odds

Beat the odds

Have you ever been to a casino? As you walk in on the soft carpeted flooring with flashing slot machines...
A Ray of Light

A Ray of Light

I have this strange affiliation with attracting the most absurd conversations around me at the most predictable places, these conversations...
Docile is Difficult

Docile is Difficult

I have not been blogging a while and things have been quite on the rise. work has been quite a...
A Singapore Kitchen

A Singapore Kitchen

Kitchens come in all forms and sizes, there are restaurant ones, home ones, studio ones and catering ones. I have...
Pecan on a bitter pill… with a pinch of salt

Pecan on a bitter pill… with a pinch of salt

I was dining at a popular restaurant in Beverly Hills a couple of weeks back. It was a Wednesday night...
A Thumbs Down

A Thumbs Down

I recently had a very unnecessary incident happen with me but which reminded me that what goes around, comes around....
Earn your bread

Earn your bread

I look back 5 months from today and wonder how I was –>this<– close to having rolled myself into USA....
The Basis of Veganism

The Basis of Veganism

Being a cook and a food writer, my usual approach to food is very open-minded. This also extends to the...
Surf’n Through

Surf’n Through

Cooking for me is a boon and a bane. For me to cook there is a a simple rule to...
The Pearl of Flours

The Pearl of Flours

Since when did superfoods become a “thing”? Now that I look back in my childhood, practically half the ingredients I...
A Knotted Mind

A Knotted Mind

When did we start multitasking the way we do now? I was driving to the gym the other day listening...