Want to prepare healthy meals without banishing flavor from your kitchen? Indian cuisine is your answer! Many Indian dishes are loaded with spices and...
For decades in New York, Indian food traditionally has been burdened with a reputation for being "cheap and cheery," and its restaurants are largely confined to pockets of "curry ghettos" around the city.
"The hottest chili pepper in Edinburgh" sounds like the start of a bad joke. (The punchline would assumedly involve haggis.) But this past Saturday, f...
A few years ago, I approached my desk after a meeting and was greeted by giant images of donuts, burgers, ice cream, and french fries on my cubicle. This was my then-boss's charming way of helping me ring in in the first day of Ramadan.
Although Sudhir Kandula did not win the first season of America's Next Great restaurant, he did reach the finale, and impressed the judges with his mi...
Indian cuisine has always been an informal part of Indian public and cultural diplomacy; what is required today is a more focused use of gastrodiplomacy in its public diplomacy efforts.
We never ate Indian food when I was a kid, except for this recipe. I am pretty sure my mother got it out of The Joy of Cooking. I've altered it a tiny...
Creating a new dish after a long workday, I feel a connection to my (now deceased) great grandmother, who also viewed cooking as a daily ritual.
On August 9, 2006, actor-comic Aasif Mandvi started a job that he had auditioned for only five hours before. It was the first of the New York performe...
A switch went off in my head three decades back and, before you could say "Mahabalipuram," I was infatuated with India. The obsession is not rational,...
Good ideas are often born on tight budgets, long exhausting hours, and bucket loads of passion.
Chicago's Indian food lovers have no shortage of options. From Devon Avenue to the Loop, restaurants offer up a variety of spicy and flavorful Indi...
Think spending Thanksgiving all by yourself is a one way ticket to Bummer Town, USA? Well, you're wrong.
Mushy. Unfortunately, that is the word that many people would use to describe the consistency of Indian food. In this spirit that I put a crunchy twist on one of my mushy favorites.
It is lunchtime at what may be the world's largest free eatery, the langar, or community kitchen at this city's glimmering Golden Temple, the holiest ...
Yes, the $5 biryani you get from a cart on 6th Avenue might fill you up as much as a three-course meal here, and for a lot less cash. But you'll struggle to find Indian dishes as inspired as the ones here.
"The key to cooking is your attitude. You must have complete confidence that whatever you do will be wonderful." That was one of the bits of advice that my late friend, Ismail Merchant, passed on to me in 1990.
Episode 33 is our first jump into Indian food. My recipe for Chana Masala came from weeks of experimenting.
This is a story about cooking an Indian vegetarian feast that's perfect for wintry nights. But it's also about the odd powers of Twitter to educate you when you least expect it.
Eating a curry once or twice a week could help prevent the onset of Alzheimer's disease and dementia, a US researcher suggests. The key ingredient ...
Most of my male friends took his side. "Let him have his meat!" they cried, as if Meat Week stood for something more in the great power dynamic between men and women.
It wasn't easy being in India; the chaos was exhausting and the weather was stiflingly hot... the air and water compromised, and still, even after the events of this past week, I cannot wait to return.
I've written sporadically about spirits and cocktails for HuffPost, so does that qualify me to review wine as well? Ummm ... sure!
Forget brushing up on politics, if you want to make a hit at a cocktail party these days, you need to get with the yogi program. By "cocktail party," I mean an early-evening gathering of slender, well-muscled women.
