Khana Pina Blog Posts

Gotta love India. Gotta love Diwali. Gold price too high ?   Too expensive to give jewellery this Diwali ? Not a problem !  Buy chocolate jewellery instead -  and why ever not ? Coffee and butterscotch bracelets…rose-flavoured earrings̷...

This is one of these vaguely stomach-churning articles that could put one off eating out in India for ever…especially at a dhaba, or roadside caff. Indians always love to say that you get the best food at a dhaba.  Hmmm…yes, you do get g...

Reading this piece in yesterday’s papers took me back. Back to summer 2009, when rumours were rife that the Indian Coffee House was to be closed.  Determined not to miss out on this bit of Delhi nostalgia, a girlfriend and I braved the heat an...

This is exciting. I have done a guest post for India Travel Blog, and they are posting this recipe here as a quid pro quo.  As a  lover of almost all food from south India, I can think of no better recipe to kick off what I hope will be a regular f...

A couple of years ago, while trekking in India’s Ladakh region, I came across all weak and feeble, as one does at altitude.  My dear friend and trekking guru, Alison, came over to my tent, where I was admittedly being a bit of a wimp, and made...

Just last weekend, we went to the auction here in Delhi of a super rare, super expensive bottle of Glenfiddich, one of only 11 bottles ever made. I told you about it, if you remember. As I always do on such occasions, I remarked then on how rapidly I...

Credit given where credit’s due. The Times of India really did have an impact, and hats off to them – though the market committee powers that be are clearly still in deny ! deny ! deny ! mode. Don’t like the sound of the inside of t...

Regular readers of my blog know that I am always banging on about the gratuitous muck and filth here.  It always astonishes me that so many people will live cheek by jowl with garbage and stink and litter, rather than lift a little finger to do anyt...

Listen up. I don’t (always) make up the blog post titles – sometimes they are written for me.  In this case, courtesy the good old Times of India. So, if you feel like getting naughty with your sweet tooth, or if you wish to get a little...

Or a 3 ft tall Christmas Tree cake ? Or a 28″ long cake, complete with polar bears and penguins ? Yup, Christmas is definitely a-comin’ Delhi ishtyle. Just hope my M & S Xmas puds – imported ‘n all -  don’t disappo...

This is a rather dotty story about Christmas cakes.  And ripping off the army.  Both at the same time. Who would’ve thunk it ? Rum flying off the shelves (those in the army canteen, by the sound of it). “Believers busy doing” all...

Ever since we moved back to India 6 years ago, we have celebrated Christmas along totally traditional lines. Tree (admittedly rather weedy-looking, but there you go). Fairy lights (though these get more and more Punjabi-esque, the longer I live here)...

Today the papers are full of a tragedy in West Bengal, where hooch has claimed 143 lives.  As a side bar to the ghastly story of toxic, fatal brews sold to the poorest of the poor, there is a small piece in the Times of India about they call “...

Platitude of the day. India is changing. And how. And at what speeds. Gone are the days when you had to bring in “goodies” such as cheese and chocolate, since they were not available here. Now, just as long as you have the moolah, and are...

Ther really are times when I regret giving my blog such an ordinary name. If I had to do it again, I would call it “There’s nowt so queer.com”. I really would. I mean, how else do you account for 4 dimensional Black Forest cupcakes...

I might just have mentioned before, in the pages of this blog, that India is changing at the speed of light.  Well, not all of it, and not all for the good -  but that is for another day and another post.  Some things are changing for the good, an...