Succulent Soccer in South Africa
In his engaging book on African food, First Catch Your Eland, the South African writer Laurens van der Post gives a metaphor for Cape Town that could be drawn straight from the manically multicultural,...
View ArticleGARAM MASALA: How about some foodball?
Looks like the maté won’t be needed now. A friend had asked about the availability in India of this herbal tea which Argentines drink obsessively, with the plan of sipping it in support as Maradona’s...
View ArticlePitched to win
For the first time in his life, on the day I meet him, Shashi Prabhu has had to identify himself to be allowed into his own office. This might seem odd if it wasn’t for where his office is — right...
View ArticleWhy dictatorships love Olympic games
In 1972 at Sapporo, Brundage tried to ban several skiers and even suggested that the Winter Games be dropped for excessive commercialisation. In the event, only one skier was banned and it was Brundage...
View ArticleA Tale of two nuts
Most people who have seen Charley's Aunt - and ever since it was first produced 122 years back a very great many people have seen or acted in this classic British farce - will remember that the titular...
View ArticleFood Fables - Invoke the spirit of Cachaça
As the proud possessor of a document that declares me to be a licensed alcoholic – the permit which everyone in Maharashtra must have to consume alcohol – I thought I knew how absurd booze bureaucracy...
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Food Fables: A slave to soul food
Black-eyed peas or lobia are widely consumed in India yet never quite seem to get their due. They are part of classic dishes, like Kerala’s olan or Punjab’s lobia masala, but one never counts them...
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