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  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    Blogroll Gazette: The Cool Kids in Food, Culinary Comic Books

    This week in food blogs ... The Daily Meal lists the 60-plus coolest people in food and drink. As part of a series of illustrated guides to international spreads, Food Republic shows how to put together a French charcuterie platter. Edible Geography investigates food vendors on bikes in Mumbai. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Nylon Khaman at Bombay Fast Food, Dish No. 1

    ​The beloved Gujarati snack khaman dhokla has a texture and flavor something like cornbread. It's made by soaking, grinding, and fermenting lentils, much the same way as dosas are fabricated.

  • Film

    January 19, 2011

    Dhobi Ghat (Mumbai Diaries) Only as Interesting as Its Peripheral Details

    ​The beloved Gujarati snack khaman dhokla has a texture and flavor something like cornbread. It's made by soaking, grinding, and fermenting lentils, much the same way as dosas are fabricated.

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2010

    Where to Dine By the Fire; An Interview with Le Pain Quotidien Founder

    ​The CDC's Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases has found that one in six Americans gets sick, as opposed to one in four, which was previously reported. [WebMD] A 90-year-old Harlem man mugged after leaving a Key Food received $500 in cash and $500 in gift cards from t ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    October 20, 2010

    HARDCORE DRAMA

    Bollywood gets serious

  • Film

    October 6, 2010
  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Jehangir Mehta: Mumbai Food Memories, Mehtaphor Planning

    ​After working at Aix, Compass, and Jean-Georges, chef Jehangir Mehta opened Graffiti in 2007. He's one of the few chefs to have worked professionally in both pastry and savory kitchens, and his cooking style features both sweet and savory flavors. It also combines Indian, Southeast Asian, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Curry Kitchen, New on 8th Street

    If you should happen to get denied at the door of Rabbit in the Moon, the new bizarre "gastropub" with a bouncer, you could go right across the street to check out a new Indian restaurant called Curry Kitchen, which has been open for three weeks.

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Where Should I Go For a Weekend Eating Crawl?

    Include newcomer Eighth Avenue Noodles on your noodle crawl​Welcome to this week's installment of Ask the Critics. If you have a question--any question!--you'd like answered in this column, email us. This week, Amol M. asks: "Can you suggest a weekend excursion/eating crawl in the five borou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2010

    Tabla's Floyd Cardoz on Goan Food, Culture Shock in the Kitchen, and Pleasing the Parents

    ​Floyd Cardoz has been the executive chef of Tabla since it opened in 1998. His ability to synthesize Indian and Western flavors and techniques, creating original but rooted food, is matchless in New York. Tabla recently merged its two entities--Tabla and Bread Bar---into one, and offers an &a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Our 10 Best Meals Under $6

    Prosperity Dumpling's sesame pancake with beef is so cheap ($1.75) that you can also afford an order of dumplings​ ​The principal lure of the cheap eat is, of course, its cheapness. But ultra-affordable food often has more going for it than thriftiness. The best are found in interesting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Our 10 Best: Indian Restaurants

    ​The glory of Indian food is its infinite variety. Think about it. An enormous region--we're including Pakistan and Bangladesh--with cultures that go back thousands of years, including influences from foreign invaders as diverse as the Mughals, the Portuguese and the English. Food from almost ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    Regional Indian Cooking: Making Chapatis

    Chapatis are simple, griddled whole-wheat flatbreads, a staple over much of India. In some places they're called rotis, but in Mumbai, where my husband's family is from, it's chapatis all the way, eaten with almost every meal no matter how basic or extravagant. His grandmother's chapatis are legen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2009

    Battle of the Dishes: Gobi Manchurian in Floral Park, Queens

    Left: Gobi Manchurian from Mumbai Xpress; Right: Masala 2 Wok's version. This week's battle of the dishes pits two different renditions of the Indo-Chinese classic gobi (cauliflower) Manchurian against each other. The restaurants, Mumbai Xpress and Masala 2 Wok, are right next to each other. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    The Early Word--Aamchi Pao (Best Vada Pav in Manhattan?)

    Left, keema pao, right, vada pao For years, I've been predicting (and hoping) that there will be an Indian street food explosion similar to the banh mi craze, enabling me to eat papri chaat and vada pav anytime of day in any part of the city. (And I've been saying it well before Tom Colicchio got i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    DIY Mumbai Sandwich

    The Mumbai grilled sandwich at Mumbai Xpress was first brought to my attention by Eating in Translation, and a few visits to the Mumbai street food restaurant made it obvious that the place deserved to get a full review. But if you want to try the sandwich (alternatively called a Mumbai or Bombay sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Fork in the Road Loves Floral Park, Queens

    Floral Park, Queens is my new favorite neighborhood. It's on the eastern edge of the borough, bordering Nassau County, and it's home to a large and growing Indian population. There are well-stocked South Asian grocery stores, like Patel Brothers and Subzi Mandi, sweets and snacks shops, and many re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    Slumdog To Be a Broadway Musical?

    The Daily News has reported that the Oscar winning phenomenon Slumdog Millionaire is being turned into a musical and it might even be headed to Broadway. Before you vomit, please realize that they're doing this to raise money for Mumbai kids--hopefully the same ones that didn't get paid to be in t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2009

    Starbucks Trying to Seem Affordable

    In an attempt to seem recession-affordable, Starbucks is rolling out a new breakfast pairing promotion where $3.95 will get you a latte and and an oatmeal or coffee cake.[WSJ]In Indiana, a rising demand for local, organic produce is resulting in a big increase in the number of small farms.[Chicago T ... More >>

  • Film

    February 4, 2009

    Luck By Chance Does Fluffy Bollywood Satire

    In an attempt to seem recession-affordable, Starbucks is rolling out a new breakfast pairing promotion where $3.95 will get you a latte and and an oatmeal or coffee cake.[WSJ]In Indiana, a rising demand for local, organic produce is resulting in a big increase in the number of small farms.[Chicago T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Floral Park: A Lesser Known Little India

    Vada Pav from Mumbai XpressThe neighborhood of Floral Park, Queens, is located as far east as you can go and still be in New York City. The neighborhood cozies up against the Nassau County line, and is made up of wide, quiet streets lined with small brick houses with yards. It also happens to be hom ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 1, 2009

    Happy New Year

    Peter McManus', Chelsea, shortly after midnight We'd been warned that Times Square could be hit with a "Mumbai-style attack" on New Year's Eve, so only about a million people showed up. (The celebration in Aspen, Colorado didn't fare so well, but they sure had fun in New Orleans.) On TV Kathy G ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2008

    Regional Indian Home Cooking: Marathi Spiced Shrimp

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Hanukkah Fun Continues

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2008

    Singha's Pizza Now Serving Frankies

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    Mumbai mastermind reported captured

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    U.S. to GM CEO: Take a hike

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    Lemon aid: Please bail out Edsel!

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Staten Islander Escaped Mumbai Massacre

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Hillary? Watch Obama like a hawk.

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2008

    Reasons to Be Ungrateful: Mumbai, Mall Violence, Parking Tickets

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 12, 2008

    Fork in the Road Gorges on Chaat

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Film

    November 12, 2008

    Bollywood meets Hollywood in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Film

    November 5, 2008

    Mahindra Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2008

    In Search of Vada Pav

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2005

    Morning Report 9/7/05
    The POTUS As Putz

    Spiced shrimp, Marathi-styleYou know how you find the same thick-gravied saag paneer and rogan josh at every neighborhood Indian restaurant? Aside from those standard Punjabi-style spots, we're lucky that we also have lots of south Indian restaurants in New York, some of them great, where we can go ... More >>

  • Books

    September 7, 2004

    Bombay Screams

    A native son's paean to India's most populous metropolis

  • Film

    August 24, 2004

    Film

    A native son's paean to India's most populous metropolis

  • Theater

    April 27, 2004

    Bollywood plus Broadway equals an Unoriginal Caste Album

    A native son's paean to India's most populous metropolis

  • Film

    June 10, 2003

    Carnival Ride

    Spinning in Infinity

  • Dining

    April 29, 2003

    Getting Your Goat

    Where in the World Is Dhaka Hazi?

  • Books

    October 1, 2002

    Off Balance

    Rohinton Mistry's 'Family Matters'

  • Music

    June 11, 2002

    Fearless Game

    Rohinton Mistry's 'Family Matters'

  • News

    April 30, 2002

    Bully for Bollywood

    With 'Lagaan,' the Indian Movie Industry Is Poised to Cross Over

  • Film

    February 5, 2002

    The Kids Are Alright

    With 'Lagaan,' the Indian Movie Industry Is Poised to Cross Over

  • Film

    November 13, 2001

    Wish You Were Queer

    With 'Lagaan,' the Indian Movie Industry Is Poised to Cross Over

  • Film

    May 29, 2001

    Homo Superior

    With 'Lagaan,' the Indian Movie Industry Is Poised to Cross Over

  • Film

    July 6, 1999

    Living on the Edge

    With 'Lagaan,' the Indian Movie Industry Is Poised to Cross Over

  • Music

    May 18, 1999

    Wide World Webs

    Three Ways To Purée a Planet

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