Thinly sliced, spicy, and crispy — we are staring at a plateful of potato kuchi chips that got polished off in no time. Over plates of mutton chinthamani where diced, mutton fidget along with chopped red chillies, and kalan milagu perattal that sets your taste buds on fire, Chef Saravanan Thangarasu talks about curating a locavore menu alongside global cuisines …
If you visit an arts festival, don’t miss the food. And, just like art, food appeals to all five senses,” notes Prahlad Sukhtankar, the curator of culinary arts at the Serendipity Arts Festival in Goa. There are lunches featuring tribal cuisines of Goa, a tasting of dishes from the Meitei community of Manipur, a sanna-making workshop, a library of food …
“I must have been around five or six years old, but I never wanted to be an astronaut or a footballer — I always wanted to be a chef,” says Spanish celebrity chef Omar Allibhoy of Tapas Revolution fame. I also first learnt about Indian cuisine at these lunches where my father would prepare select dishes for us.” To make …