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Gur or jaggery made from sugarcane.

How Indian states revel in the goodness of jaggery

Prabalika M. Borah Meghna Majumdar PRIYADERSHINI SHARMA Sankranti, Pongal, Lohri... no harvest festival in the country is complete without the use of ‘gud’ or jaggery. Fans know that the texture and taste of this traditional sweetener differ from region to region, lending a distinct flavour to festive dishes. Travel around India with us to sample some well-loved heirloom recipes

How Tamil Nadu’s farmers revived heritage rice varieties over decades

Chitra Deepa Anantharam The past two years have seen a surge in the demand for heritage rice in the State. This Pongal, we look at the decades-long movement behind this revival, and the farmers, researchers and entrepreneurs who affected change at the grassroots

Mrs Mage restaurant at Hyatt Gachibowli hotel, Telangana

Mrs Mage, Hyderabad, offers a delicious sojourn with cocktails, chilli pork and baos

Divya Kala Bhavani Hyatt Gachibowli’s latest fare of fusion delicacies from the East include tempting pork fry and indulgent baos, all enjoyed in an intimate al fresco setting

Bar experts Pankaj Balachandran and Arijit Bose

How the country’s leading chefs and restaurateurs are planning for a busy 2022

Anoothi Vishal Local luxe bars and pop ups in unexpected places — with Goa and international locations such as Seattle and Monaco as favourites

Curd, milk and lemon juice are added to give a milky white colour to sakkare acchu.

Candy for the gods: ‘Sakkare acchu’ always reminds me of Makar Sankranti

Rashmi Gopal Rao

A whisky tasting session at The Quorum, Gurugram

Take a sip with the new generation of India’s whisky appreciation clubs

Anisha Menezes Ah, for the love of a dram! Whisky now finds its audience in millenials as clubs across the country find inventive ways to spread knowledge of the spirit

Thought for Food

Tasting radiance

Missing travel and delicious cuisines? Read books that delve into both

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Melina Elizabeth Koshy of Papa Bird has the traditional cake baked in her family for Christmas

What is cooking in the kitchens of home chefs and home bakers in Thiruvananthapuram this Christmas

Watch | India's first food museum

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Food

How Indian states revel in the goodness of jaggery

Food

How Tamil Nadu’s farmers revived heritage rice varieties over decades

review Hyderabad

Mrs Mage, Hyderabad, offers a delicious sojourn with cocktails, chilli pork and baos

Candy for the gods: ‘Sakkare acchu’ always reminds me of Makar Sankranti

Thought for Food Food

Tasting radiance

Food

How the country’s leading chefs and restaurateurs are planning for a busy 2022

Take a sip with the new generation of India’s whisky appreciation clubs

Ah, for the love of a dram! Whisky now finds its audience in millenials as clubs across the country find inventive ways to spread knowledge of the spirit

How country sugar or ‘naatu sakkarai’ is made at Erode’s Kavindapadi

With Pongal around the corner, we visit Kavindapadi in Erode district, famous for organic country sugar, a flavourful substitute to commercial jaggery and white sugar

Yoghurt based guilt-free desserts in Hyderabad

Get your sweet and healthy fix at Hyderabad’s latest frozen yoghurt dessert place with MyFroyoLand in Begumpet

Understanding the three Cs of culinary wisdom in the new year

How to eat wise through the year and beyond for sustainable health is what the 2022 food planner, Parampara, tells you

Rediscover indigenous rice varieties of India at this zero-waste store in Coimbatore

Vilvah Agro, a zero-waste store in Coimbatore, showcases more than 40 different rice varitieties from various States across the country

Chennai welcomes new Mexican restaurants with creative takes on authentic dishes

Chennai welcomes a fiesta of new Mexican restaurants, each with a unique take on the popular cuisine. Here’s our guide to trying everything from authentic chili con carne to pani puri tacos

Coonoor’s Cafe Diem introduces a seven-course menu

The festive fare is a delicious mix of the exotic and local

2021: The year the food came to me

Everyone from home chef to five-star hotel is now delivering food. Failing which, we have food shows

Make way for Bani Nanda’s anti-plum cake

Bani Nanda of Delhi’s Miam Pâtisserie sets a table for The Hindu Weekend and shares a few brands you can mix and match

Diageo’s Epitome Reserve is for the craft whisky conscious

Diageo’s limited edition Epitome Reserve is targetting the craft conscious, curious Indian consumer

Chennai’s favourite old bakeries share their Christmas cake secrets

Every traditional plum cake is distinct, with a secret ingredient or ten. Join us as we get in line to try a slice at the city’s oldest bakeries

Bake your cake and eat it too, this Christmas!

Food fads come and go but plum cakes remain an eternal favourite of the season. A few home bakers share their secrets...

Moolika, a food festival hosted by Kadar community women, celebrates tubers

The fete hopes to popularise tubers such as ‘kanjil’, ‘nootta’ and ‘theyvan’ and their nutritional values

Khimad, that spicy winter punch that heralds Christmas for Mumbai’s East Indian community

Bolstered by spices, sugar and orange juice, the generous splash of alcohol is ‘almost’ undetectable

Indulge in the flavours of Tangra cuisine through this Hyderabad pop-up

The pop-up, wrapping up on December 19 at Mercure Hyderabad, showcases Kolkata’s cuisine demography beyond the usual suspects

What is cooking in the kitchens of home chefs and home bakers in Thiruvananthapuram this Christmas

Besides the ubiquitous plum cakes and common delicacies, there are surprises aplenty, from pecan tassies to red wine Christmas cakes

Chennai revels in the return of the Sabha canteen

After weeks of anticipation, caterers and customers reunite at the city’s sabha canteens. Revel in their familiar rhythm again over filter coffee and pizza idlis

Watch | India's first food museum

A video on the food museum in Thanjavur

Hyderabad-based Skippi ushers in nostalgia with their cola and fruity ice pops

If you loved ‘ice pepsis’, you will be thrilled to know India finally has its first ice pop with this startup in Hyderabad that works with natural flavours

Fratelli: the next chapter

Coming together as a family, India’s third largest winemaker with its unusual grape varieties wants to show the world that this country can make good wines

Pillar-129, Coimbatore’s new drive-in restaurant lets diners enjoy meals with physical distancing

Pillar-129, the new multi-cuisine restaurant in town with a drive-in option, seems promising

Home-style cooking, simplified

Missing the elaborate meals at your parent’s dining table, now that you are back at work? Now, recreate them in compact kitchens with limited time

Fine dining in India takes on a new avatar with curated menus, renowned chefs and intimate settings

Fine dining turned adventurous during the pandemic, as chefs used every ingredient to bring people back to the table, either at their homes or at exotic locales

Coimbatore’s Cafe Totaram enters online space with Snackwala range of traditional North Indian savouries

Now, you can order mathris, toshe, jeera cookies, and brookies online

Hyderabad House, the city’s original takeaway space is back

Seven years after they closed down, Zubair Ahmed is determined to continue his grandfather’s legacy of Hyderabad House, with lukmi, kebabs and determination — all with an upgraded business model inspired by international restaurants

The boom of cloud kitchens in Coimbatore

From gourmet food and experimental cuisines to Pan-Asian, cloud kitchens in the city are offering intricate culinary experiences

Actor Shefali Shah launches into the hospitality business with Jalsa in Ahmedabad

Jalsa offers a hodgepodge of Indian and international cuisines apart from a range of activities for customers, like palm reading, applying henna, pottery and dancing to garba

Meet the 79-year-old from Chennai who followed her passion a decade ago, and now makes your in-flight biryani

Triguni Eze Eats, a ready-to-eat food brand by Radha Daga, is available on flights, trains, and in retail stores

Behind bars, at home: Here’s what's keeping bartenders busy post lockdown

After a challenging pandemic pause, as parties move to homes and hotel suites, bartenders are using the creative freedom of freelance gigs to tailor inventive cocktails and experiences

Hunger games

Comic books often add flavour to food by fanning the imagination

Meet the European chocolate connoisseurs celebrating Kerala’s cocoa

An Italian couple is leading the production of high quality cocoa from Idukki in Kerala that is making its way to makers of artisanal chocolates in Europe and the US

Visakhapatnam’s millet idli that impressed the Vice President

On a recent visit to Visakhapatnam, M Venkaiah Naidu enjoyed a breakfast of innovative conical idlis, wrapped in vistharaku leaves, and made by Chittem Sudheer from nine varieties of organic millets grown in the tribal belt of Paderu

Indian Aeropress Championship heads to Chennai

The Indian leg from five cities to 13, and is coming to Chennai for the very first time. The goal is to select India’s representative for World Aeropress Championships, to be held in Australia in 2022

How home baker Devaki Vijayaraman found her inner masterchef

The title winner of ‘MasterChef India — Tamil’, Devaki Vijayaraman, talks about how the cooking reality show helped her find her feet in the culinary world

A fest to celebrate a local rice wine

The GI tag and the newly introduced Vista dome to Haflong promises more than the usual crowd for the Judima fest in Assam

Coimbatore’s Sree Annapoorna enters fine dining with Kove restaurant

Sree Annapoorna reinvents itself with a business hotel and fine dining restaurant, complete with jasmine cake and ‘nannari’ negronis. Here is a first look

Kerala’s Sweet Smith chain that offers Turkish desserts comes to Coimbatore

You can dig into delicious Turkish desserts now in Coimbatore

Your office dabba, packed by a neighbour

Home chefs are now star residents of apartment complexes in Chennai, providing fresh, healthy meals to office goers, the elderly, and young parents juggling work and children

How 2021 made room for the ‘meat analogue’ in India

Accelerated by the pandemic and powered by environmentalists, we look back on a 2021 that saw launches of appetising alternatives such as plant-based kebabs, eggs and other ‘mock meats’

Cook like a Nobel laureate: Economist Abhijit Banerjee’s new book celebrates family meals

Economist Abhijit Banerjee explores the social dimension of food in his latest book ‘Cooking to Save Your Life’ with grocery runs, dinner parties and lemon dal

On a food trail through Kerala’s Ponnani that has a culinary tradition marked by umpteen snacks, sweets and delicacies

Concerted efforts are being made to encourage home-cooks of Ponnani to become entrepreneurs

‘With dal dhokli, I have scalded my tongue but satisfied my palate every single time’

The traditional lentil stew has strips of diamond-shaped dough simmering in it

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