Our daily bread

Soy-maple-gochujang chicken with pak choi. (Istockphoto)

A gochujang chicken recipe inspired by a trip to Australia

4 min read . 24 Aug 2024

Mackerel on toast. (Samar Halarnkar)

Sustainable eating with mackerel on toast

4 min read . 13 Jul 2024

Gazan avocados (Photo by Samar Halarnkar)

Beans, avocados and defiance: Gazan memories

4 min read . 15 Jun 2024

Chicken mandi. (Photo by Samar Halarnkar)

The chicken recipe that flew from Yemen to Bengaluru

5 min read . 02 Jun 2024

There is nothing that cooks faster than squid. (Istockphoto)

Cut kitchen time, up your cooking game with a squid recipe

4 min read . 18 May 2024

Saffron lends a golden-yellow hue to food. (iStockphoto)

The mystique of saffron in a summer lunch

4 min read . 04 May 2024

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