But regardless of which hot sauce you use, the chilli trend is here to stay. And ironically enough the impetus to add more ...

The Dalai Lama has moved part of the way towards achieving that goal. There is a democratically elected government in exile ...

If you have been to a fancy Western restaurant or even to one serving that kind of food in India, you will have noticed that the food comes out from the kitchen already plated. The main component of ...

So, has Bangkok, which most of us know well and regard a reasonably priced holiday destination that is not too far away, ...

So I make no value judgements about Gastro tourism. All I will say is that it now dominates gastronomy at the highest level.

Call me a jaded old bore but these are the current trends/clichés that I hate the most. There has always been a distinction between the European conception of a sandwich and its American counterpart.

I have held off writing about the Air India crash for several reasons. Partly it was that I was saddened, shocked and so depressed by the tragedy that it was hard to string two sentences together let ...

At the end of our meal, Saket walked in, saw me and complained that I had not told him I was coming. I responded that the whole point of sneaking in was for no one to expect me and that, in any case, ...

Why is it such a hit? Well, it is a true Dubai-style success story. It’s created by people of different national origins (British, Filipino, Egyptian) who came to Dubai to work. It has succeeded ...

Is the cult of the anonymous restaurant critic dead? I think it probably is. What read like a death notice appeared this week in The New York Times. Foodies will know that the Times has long prided ...

But my food memories of Bangalore go back to an earlier era – the beginning of the 1980s – when the fancy restaurants did not exist, when the Ashoka was the best hotel in town and when Bangalore was a ...