cooking

Vikas Khanna, Chef and Television Personality

Open

Tastemaker

Have You Burnt Your Mouth?

Shylashri Shankar

The triumphs and tragedy of Dalit food

Be a Case Study on a Plate

Shylashri Shankar

My diet is now curated by science—and I’m happy

Mise-en-Cuisine

Shylashri Shankar

Eating scenes in films embody conflict or cooperation between the characters, inform or assign an individual or family’s place in society

Going Beetroot

Rachel Dwyer

Not feeling fruity? Go veg out

It helps if you can come across as creative, dogged, willing to take risks, and more importantly, may also fail. When you fail, you get face-time on TV because the sudden death or black apron episode will feature only you and a few others

The Cook, the Chef and the Gender Gap

Shylashri Shankar

Let’s assume that skill in the kitchen is gender-neutral. If so, why is a man more likely than a woman to be taken seriously as a chef? It is perception that creates the illusion of a distinction between men and women in the kitchen

You are the way you cook

Shylashri Shankar

If north and south Indians share a similar genetic structure and perhaps a ‘common origin’ in the Harappan civilisation, then what has given birth to the different techniques of cooking?