Food Archive

• 8January 12, 2010

  Irony in a can of Pepsi

  Have you seen the “Pepsi Throwback” commercial?  Pepsi had apparently introduced its “Throwback” drink for a few months last year,...
• 14November 11, 2009

  Nostalgia comes wrapped in Pan Pasand

  Who buys these things?  That’s the question I’ve asked myself whenever I’ve come across a display of candies at Indian...
• 24August 11, 2009

  First Harvest

  A necklace of bright red beads lies strewn on my plate, though some of the beads seem to have come...
• 15November 25, 2008

  Outsourcing cooking

  The other day I saw an ad for mashed potatoes. A tired looking woman was slashing wildly at a potato...
• 18October 27, 2008

  Iapetus in a gulab jamun

  Wish you all a very happy Diwali (or Deepavali)!! I am going to shamelessly borrow my brother’s greeting to me to...
• 21October 16, 2008

  The bottled water debate – purer than tap water?

  Most of us know that a lot of the bottled water we buy is really tap water. Pepsi admitted last...
• 39August 28, 2008

  Masala pasta

  “What’s for lunch?” my Mom asked me on Skype.  No doubt, she was wondering why I was chatting with her...
• 56July 30, 2008

  A taxonomy of desi names

  You must have heard of it by now – a judge in New Zealand found the name “Tallulah does the...
• 24July 19, 2008

  Theratti Paal

  Growing up doesn’t seem to have made me less rebellious.  It seems to me that even now, my Mom only...
• 36July 15, 2008

  Making Rasagullas

  I opened the refrigerator and came face to face with horror.  The gallon of milk was past its expiry date. ...