Kuremal’s Kulfis: Masterclass and Recipes

Pamela Timms — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:15:00 +0000

The best ices in Delhi? It’s a big claim, but these are kulfis with a pedigree.

The Kuremal family have been making kulfi in the old city since 1908 when Pandit Kuremal left his ancestral village in Haryana at the age of 8 to seek fame and fortune in the big city. He learned the [...]

Faqiri Muamalaat

Pamela Timms — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 07:02:26 +0000

EOiD trips are always an adventure, but the vegetarian excursions are a particular delight. Not because we’re all militant meat-haters. Quite the reverse in fact. However, despite the fact that most of us believe a meal without meat is no meal at all, our leader, Hemanshu, is committed to providing an equal opportunities dining experience.

Karim’s

Hemanshu Kumar — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:39:15 +0000

It’s been written about ad nauseum. Throw a stone, and you’re liable to hit a foodie in whom it inspires a religious zeal the Imam at the Jama Masjid next door would envy. If you hear my friend Nishant talk about it, you’d think he’d been to [...]

Kulle in Chawri Bazaar

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 15:50:07 +0000

Chalk another one up for Shashank.

Several months ago, when the delicate evening chill meant you could look forward to winter rather than mourn its passing, we’d done a wonderful Navratra trip to Bazaar Sitaram and its precincts.

That’s when he’d dragged us to his favourite chaatwaala in Chawri Bazaar to show us [...]

Sandwiches in Raghuganj

Hemanshu Kumar — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:13:41 +0000

“Some fruity sandwiches?” asked Rahul Verma several months ago, and I promptly put my hand up.

We’ve mentioned how Delhi’s food is often descended from that of the mediaeval lashkars garrisoned around the forts of the capital. Today Shahjahanabad is home to an army of office-goers and shopkeepers [...]

Kulfis at Sitaram Bazaar

Hemanshu Kumar — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:24:32 +0000

Shashank wasn’t impressed.

I was gushing on about Roshan di Kulfi of Karol Bagh, a place I’ve been visiting since I was that high, but it left Shashank cold. You see, Shashank runs a jewellery business of his own, with offices in both Karol Bagh and Chandni Chowk, and his appetite [...]

Iftar at Jama Masjid

Hemanshu Kumar — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:23:34 +0000

It must be the age.

I can’t think of any other reason it took me a whole fortnight to figure out why I’d been looking at the world with such a jaundiced eye of late. Life had been toodling along quite nicely, until an EOiD plan in mid-September to visit

Kallu Nihari

Hemanshu Kumar — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 09:38:44 +0000

Talk about Nihari in Delhi, and somehow the name of Kallu Ustad invariably crops up. Rahul Verma mentions him in a column, the occasional website includes his fare in one of its old Delhi walks, and every other nihari lover counts him in [...]

A Hog Walk

Pankaj Molekhi — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:48:32 +0000

The idea of a late evening walk originally came from food buff Monali, an Orkut friend who works for CSE (those obsessive warriors against pesti-colas). Last winter, we had taken a long walk through the bylanes of Old Delhi, sampling a variety of meaty and vegetarian fare dotted between Jama Masjid and Red Fort. Since [...]

The Original Moti Mahal

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 21:11:00 +0000

As the appetite wilts under the summer sun, I’m once again reminded of the exciting outings the EOiD gang have had over the past winter.

For instance, the arrival of a friend from the US occasioned an impromptu EOiD field trip in early December. For ideas on where to go we looked to Harneet, who [...]

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