Food Fables : Can tax evasion promote snail consumption in India?Giant African Land Snails, a destructive invasive species, are appearing in Goan fields. While a problem elsewhere, invasivorism, or eating...
Food Fables: Victor Rangel-Ribeiro and The Book of Worst MealsA collection of writers share their most regrettable dining experiences in 'The Book of Worst Meals'. From disastrous honeymoons and childh...
Food Fables: How cow dung cooking shaped Indian cuisineDavid Chang's culinary exploration in India led him to appreciate the traditional use of cow dung as fuel, influencing the slow and gentle ...
Food Fables: How freezing helped us learn to love shrimpForrest Gump, celebrating its 30th anniversary, also highlighted shrimp, leading to the Bubba-Gump Shrimp Company. The recent budget suppor...
A rulebook for returning food 'dabbas': Better empty and in time than late and filledReturning favours for and with food is hardly special to India, but it takes special intensity here with the focus on the food dabba.
Enid Blyton and the art of escapism through foodWhile food in wartime Britain was strictly rationed, with sugar and butter very hard to get, Blyton served up a fantasy of food in plenty.
An education through mangoes and mackerelsMackerel could not be more different from mangoes, yet there were lessons to be learnt about both.
Club food for the soul: Does its future lie in the international discovery of its curiously comforting appeal?The clubs’ elite image made them easy targets for politicians.
From karipatta to tindola, immigrants often carry seeds, a promise to plant a memory of home wherever they come to restit is for those who travel with no plan of return that the seeds mean the most.
Indica Gastronomica: The food fables featuring fish, salads & ragda patticeNobody can love fish as much as the Bengalis.
Food in fables, folktales and epicsLittle do we realise that food has seeped into our consciousness at a very early age — through folktales, parables, fables, rhymes and bedt...
Food Fable: Baskets of wishesYou groan at another box of sweets, but fruits are taken home for the kids to eat. And if fruit baskets used to have a cheap image, exotic ...
Food fables: The multifaceted benefits of zedoaryThe old ladies who sell the creamy coloured roots in the market today still tell you of its virtues, but most people have forgotten about z...
Food Fables: Black-eyed peas, the wonder proteinFascinating nuggets from epicurean history.
Food fables: Fuity with toffee notesChikoos are unlucky. They look dull — one alternative name for them is tree potatoes and another is mud apple.
Food fables: Fascinating nuggets from epicurean historySince flowers lead to fruits the desire to eat them first is a like gobbling cake batter and not the baked cake, but then again, cake batte...
Red tooth and clawKurt Vonnegut was a prisoner of war in an underground slaughterhouse during World War II. Later, he wrote a fable to make sense of his own ...