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Sitaram Diwan Chand: Masterclass & Recipes

Pamela Timms — Tue, 26 May 2009 03:17:10 +0000

When conniving Mughal upstart Aurangzeb imprisoned his father, Emperor Shah Jehan, in Agra Fort in 1657, he told him he could choose just one thing to eat every day for the rest of his life. The old man chose chick peas because the prison cook told him he would be able to make something different [...]

Amritsari Kulche in Rohini

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:32:39 +0000

We economists have a dirty secret. We’re quite clueless. No, really.

Take for instance, the case of amritsari kulche. The kulche are about as closely related to their Delhi counterparts as the average barrel-chested Sikh is to your wiry daalkhor UP baniya.

Born of a thick dough of [...]

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 [...]

Sancho’s

Hemanshu Kumar — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:10:29 +0000

There seems to be a terrible paucity of good Mexican food joints in Delhi.

One of the options that has been around for a while is Rodeo’s. Frankly, I haven’t even tried their stuff yet, but that’s only because I keep hearing very mixed reviews about the place.

A week ago, I was in the [...]

Afghan Food at Lajpat Nagar

Hemanshu Kumar — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:52:51 +0000

I heart EOiD.

It was just a few weeks ago, on December 21 to be precise, while making a plan for Kabuli food in Ballimaran, that it suddenly struck me — surely there were other Afghan restaurants in Delhi? A little googling indicated the existence of such a place in Lajpat Nagar, but there was no [...]

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 [...]

Sitaram Dewan Chand

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:09:34 +0000

It’s true. We men don’t ask for directions.

A couple months back, having heard one too many recommendations for Sitaram Dewan Chand’s Chhole Bhature, I googled their address, found the rough location on an online map, and went down to Paharganj. I reached the street I was looking for, but despite driving as slowly as [...]

Rajouri Garden of Five Senses

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:25:15 +0000

Late last week, nine of us EOiD adventurers turned our noses westwards, and headed to Rajouri Garden.

I’d been looking for an excuse to go there for a while now — I kept hearing about the Giani’s ice-cream parlour there, but couldn’t enthuse myself to travel such long distances just for desserts. Then a few [...]

Nagpal Amar Rahe!

Hemanshu Kumar — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:36:23 +0000

There are few things more difficult than getting yourself to start going for morning walks in Delhi’s pitiful excuse of a monsoon season. I had been trying to get going for several weeks, on occasion even succeeding in rousing myself in the wee hours of the morning. But I would lose heart when just a [...]

Ashoks the Great

Hemanshu Kumar — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:51:09 +0000

Once upon a time there ruled over twentieth-century Indraprastha, not one but two Ashoks, whose empire stretched as far as the eye could see, and their fame even beyond.

Okay, granted that the eye couldn’t see very far at all in twentieth-century Indraprastha, but you get the gist.

Every day when the sun would set [...]