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Business News > Mint Authors > Samar Halarnkar

Samar Halarnkar

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ARTICLES BY SAMAR HALARNKAR

Zucchini and eggplant in chermoula.

Opinion | The challenge of Chermoula

4 min read . 25 Sep 2020

P.G. Halarnkar, your columnist’s father, fires a .303 rifle during the early days of his police career, sometime in the late 1950s. Courtesy Samar Halarnkar

Opinion | The role of roast pork in my father’s 88th year

4 min read . 12 Sep 2020

Slow-grilled ‘rawas’, saffron and pistachio rice, and avocado-and-fresh-tomato salad. (Photo: Samar Halarnkar)

Opinion | A (re) discovery of slow cooking

4 min read . 28 Aug 2020

'This may not sound like a big deal but it is not easy for a Halarnkar to give up coconut'

Opinion | Pandemic-led logic and a new fish curry

4 min read . 13 Aug 2020

The lockdown forced many men to learn basic cooking or try more ambitious stuff (Photo credit: Unsplash)

Opinion | Warning: Indian men entering the kitchen

5 min read . 01 Aug 2020

Cooking these days offers a point of stability. (Istockphoto)

Opinion | Why there’s no creativity in this column

4 min read . 18 Jul 2020

A smoked brinjal salad called the ‘mkhabasa’. (Samar Halarnkar)

Opinion | Experiments with an eggplant and other desi adventures

4 min read . 04 Jul 2020

To tenderize the meat, cook it in on ‘dum’. (Photo: Alamy)

Opinion | A chicken under pressure provides refuge from Covid madness

4 min read . 20 Jun 2020

Belgaum-style spicy coconut chicken. (Photo: Samar Halarnkar)

Sylvan Belgaum and a chicken recipe of its Marathi people

4 min read . 05 Jun 2020

Buy vegetables from local vendors who kept us supplied during the worst days. (Photo: Getty Images)

Going vocal for local and drawing in the locals

4 min read . 22 May 2020

The one-pot Deshmukh meal. (Photo: Samar Halarnkar)

Luck and complexity in the lockdown

4 min read . 08 May 2020

In the frenzy of everyday cooking, cleaning, sweeping and dusting, there is no time for culinary exotica. (Photo: Alamy)

Food and life outside India’s great middle-class comfort zone

4 min read . 24 Apr 2020

Prawn curry (Top); and grating coconut with an old brass grater (bottom). Courtesy: Samar Halarnkar

Time, tradition and a tale of quarantine

4 min read . 10 Apr 2020

Healthy and colourful—dalia with pomegranate and chickpeas. Samar Halarnkar

Cooking in the time of Covid-19

4 min read . 27 Mar 2020

Tortillas, black beans with mole skillet sauce, corn salad and guacamole. (Photo: Samar Halarnkar)

Over dinner, a reunion on the other side of the world

4 min read . 28 Feb 2020

Fathima Riyaz’s ‘shewsa poli’ (prawn-rice cake). (Photo: Samar Halarnkar)

Weed cookies, biryani and other forms of neighbourly love

4 min read . 14 Feb 2020

Steamed and grilled chicken. Photo: Samar Halarnkar

Life with the broiler and other dubious adventures

4 min read . 30 Jan 2020

Stuffed red peppers.samar halarnkar

Inspiration from a troubled land

4 min read . 17 Jan 2020

The pleasure of eating raw mango with a sprinkling of chilli powder. (Photo: iStock)

In 2020, why we must embrace culinary simplicity

4 min read . 03 Jan 2020

Roast mutton with home-made wine. (Photo: Samar Halarnkar)

’Tis the season to be jolly and fire up the oven

4 min read . 24 Dec 2019