The poverty in the Amazon needs to be addressed in order to protect the rainforest, according to experts. The combination of poverty and li...

In a world that is desperately trying to adopt more "planet-friendly" diets even if it means industrially produced 'plant-based' proteins t...

How does your brain wrestles with the ethics of eating animals? Psychologists have some answers.

Indians have added a savoury strand to South Africa’s history and it is shameful that some politicians are now trying to trash it.

Mackerel could not be more different from mangoes, yet there were lessons to be learnt about both.

Dorothy Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham were acclaimed as better writers than Christie, yet it is her work that has endured.

With courtly cooking, the princely states preserved a certain kind of lavish eating.

Rahul's party, too, has drastically diminished in its hold across India, and so has the aura of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. Congress’ dynast ...

Instead of food fights over Twitter, a change in attitude to Indian food might come from the discovery of their health and diet benefits.

The drop in Chinese stock threatens to produce a bearish environment around the globe. A long-term view suggests that fears of spillover ef...

My Hinduism is tolerant because I am a beef eater and also because I was allowed to eat beef by a deeply spiritual, upper caste, Sanskrit s...

Matching Indian food with Chateau Margaux was a challenge. Conventional wisdom decrees that the strong aromas and flavours of Indian cuisin...

Life of Pi shows in grisly detail how a shipwrecked Pi, a vegetarian, is forced to eat meat for survival.

French cuisine has fallen victim to its own overhype in an era when casual chic is 'trending' everywhere including India.It is perceived to...

The growth-inflation trade-off proposition is a policy rip-off. There is no theory that quite establishes such a relationship.

RBI Governor D Subbarao has said that rising prosperity in rural India is leading to food scarcity, which is driving up food prices.

Inflation is down, which of course is good news, but let us not forget that just before the economic crisis we had the food crisis, and tha...