Update: Tamil Nadu Bhavan Re-opened by NYC Health Dept Our earliest memories of South Indian restaurants are of dark and dingy interiors, food served in dirty plates or banana leaves and water poured into tall tumblers by sweat-drenched waiters in the dusty small towns and cities of Tamil Nadu in South India. Four decades and […]
We’ve heard of Low Carb Diet, South Beach Diet, Low Fat Diet, Atkins Diet, Low Sodium Diet, Vegetarian Diet and a variety of other diets. Penis Diet, what the heck is that? Sounds like what some desperate pornographers would be peddling in junk e-mail. You know, the kind that arrives uninvited in your inbox with headers […]
We have yet to read Jennifer 8. Lee’s new book The Fortune Cookie Chroniclers: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food but we plan to pick it up soon. Meanwhile, here’s an excerpt from today’s New York Times review of The Fortune Cookie Chroniclers: Lee presents an intriguing idea in a chapter called “Open-Source Chinese Restaurants,†[…]
Iceland’s Glitnir Bank is coming to India. Glitnir plans to file an application with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to open a representative office in India. The bank has similar offices in China, US and Canada to support its niche strategy within geothermal energy, seafood and offshore service vessels. Glitnir has also formed a […]
Indian food owes its attraction to the rich amalgam of spices and, of course, the hot chilies that go into its famed curries. Today’s Wall Street Journal (subscription required) brings us news of an Indian chili called Bhut Jolokia that is supposedly 200 times hotter than jalapeño pepper. Apparently, Bhut Jolokia is the world’s hottest chili […]
Thiru Kumar of NY Dosas popularly known as the Dosa Man of New York City has won this year’s prestigious Vendy Award edging out his competition in the form of Tacos, Falafel, Jerk Chicken etc on Saturday. Vendy Awards are given out annually for the best food from a street cart vendor in New York. When […]