tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39931511026790779982011-09-14T01:45:04.489+05:30My experience of exploring food in different places across varous countriesSiddhuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05500825095990609768noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3993151102679077998.post-21110305812480803652009-03-01T19:07:00.005+05:302009-04-19T13:28:59.792+05:30

Christmas in the beautiful Tatras Mountains in the south of Poland feels to be the closest thing to spending time with Santa at the end of a travel by the Polar Express. The temperature is 10 t0 15 degrees below zero, and the Christmas trees on the roundabouts look like those on picture postcards.One thing the weather does is that you do not feel so bad eating all the atery clogging food and

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During the different ceremonies and feasts which part of a wedding in eastern Uttar Pradesh (largest Indian province located in the north of India), is the lunch on wedding day. This meal stands out as it remains similar for most weddings in a community irrespective of their financial statusWhen the groom-to-be sits down with four other bachelors for this meal in a plate made of dried leaves

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Turkish citizens who came to post World War II Germany as Gastarbeiter (guest workers) would not have realized that half a century later they will be remembered, not for the factories they built but for the food they brought with them. About two and a half million Turks in Germany have achieved success in many walks of life but nowhere is their presence more prominent than on the food scene where

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When an article in The Guardian couple of years back said that the homogeneity of modern coffeehouses is stifling their traditional role as places of sedition, it was the writer’s take on the conflict between convenience and culture (or maybe the culture of convenience). This is a change with a global footprint - Starbucks in the US; Café Nero, Costa Coffee and Café Ritazza in Europe; Barista and

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Tapa is a small lid on the top of a drink. The bartender would traditionally place something complimentary, like olives or fried seafood (mariscoes), on top of it. This is the story about the origin of tapas that I knew until I read the entry on Wikipedia. It suggests so many possible alternatives that instead of being confused, I stick to my initial understanding – it helps that most people in

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For this second part of the Spanish Food Yatra, I would cover my experiences across Andalucia. Essentially three cities/towns – Seville and Granada from Moorish Spain and Nerja on Costa del Sol. Tapas bar hopping (Ir de tapas in Spanish) deserves a dedicated post so I will leave out tapas bars of Seville here.BreakfastWe had heard so much about Churros that we had to have them for breakfast at

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Check out part 2 of this two part artcile I wrote for Rediff...Great Meals on Lazy Sundays

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Check out this link for a two part article I wrote for Rediff...Culinary Yatra of Bangalore - 1

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Traveling through some of the cities and towns of Spain, I had a chance to eat at places wide and varied – with origins from 14th century to 21st century; 10 Euros for a couple to almost 100; a hole in a wall outlet to being served by tuxedoed waiters – an interesting experience for me in a country where so many tourists don’t manage to get beyond the eateries along the beach resorts of Costa del

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Krakow is an interesting city – it would have as many churches per capita as Varanasi has temples, but many more times as many pubs per capita as well! For hundreds of years it was Polish capital, not only political but spiritual and academic as well. And now, arguably, the hottest tourist destination for the young traveler in Eastern Europe. So, while many restaurants and cafes are housed in

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In more than 2000 years since Christ, Egypt has been under foreign occupation for all but last fifty odd years. If you include Alexander’s occupation, then this period of foreign occupation started much before Christ, continued through Roman, Arab, Turkish and British occupation. Now with this as history, it isn’t surprising that there isn’t much of a ‘cuisine’ that Egypt can call exclusively its

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