Posted by: Aadisht on: July 31, 2011
This isn’t the common name for it, since a Google search doesn’t seem to throw up the link I want, but there’s a Lonely Planet Curse: as soon as Lonely Planet (or, to be fair, any major travel guide publisher) lists a restaurant/ hotel in their guidebooks, it starts getting an influx of tourists. Since [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 14, 2009
I mean, what tops Le Royale? Le Imperiale? Wikipedia to the rescue. The Angus Third Pounder is not sold outside America and Canada (where it is called an Angus Deluxe in Ontario). No clarification, however, on whether this is because the rest of the world has the metric system, and wouldn’t know what the fuck [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 5, 2009
In order: Stella Artois, near the Tower of London. Recommended to me by Nega Maami. Amstel, at Henry’s Bar in Piccadilly. Also a Nega recommendation. Dry and delicious. Cobra, along with delicious paalak paneer at a place called… Punjabi Spice? Punjabi Spirit in Hounslow. As strong as Kingfisher, without the unpleasant aftertaste. Warsteiner, on the [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 2, 2009
Happy Onam to all my Mellu readers and fans! You guys rock. May your days be filled with immigration to Gelf and lots of todee. I first thulped Onam sadhya five years ago at the IIMB mess, where the Mellus in the batch prepared and served it for lunch. Whatta meal. Burp. Today, alas, I [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: June 3, 2009
Appropriate uses for mangos: Fresh fruit Fresh fruit served with icecream Mango pickle Panna Added for flavour while steaming fish A terrible waste of mangos: Mango milkshake Mango lassi Mango icecream Murabba Borderline uses of mangos: Chhundo
Posted by: Aadisht on: July 2, 2008
Love Food Hate Waste has five tips on how to save money by not wasting food (via). Although the list has been designed with a UK audience in mind, some of the tips hold equally well for us junta sitting in India. For example: Tinned beans, frozen vegetables, meat and fish and dried fruit, nuts, [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: November 14, 2007
Over SMS, BJ asks: Aaloo paratha is to a punjoo like curd rice to a tambrahm agree? Not really. As TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan pointed out, for TamBrahms curd rice is both necessary and sufficient1. However for Punjews aaloo parathas are only sufficient2, since they can be replaced by mooli parathas, gobi parathas, or makki di roti. [...]
Posted by: Aadisht on: October 16, 2007
You pay for it on the treadmill.
Posted by: Aadisht on: September 25, 2007
This Mint article on school lunches in Japan is rather alarming in its enthusiasm for the nanny state. It also gushes about the Japanese self-sufficiency movement, which actually dooms Japanese farmers to small farms and eats up money in food subsidies: Chisan, chishou, the local term for ‘produce local, consume local’, is a major campaign [...]