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Topic: Chef

What women want—a man who cooks and doesn’t seek a standing ovation for it

An average Lajpat Nagar playboy knows that women will reply to his Instagram story of the chicken curry he cooked for lunch. And he is proven right, every single time.

Chef Kunal Kapur’s top food picks celebrate India—dishes from Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Kerala, Goa

Kapur has never been to Saudi Arabia. But his top restaurants to relish Saudi dishes are Souk by Cafe Arabia in Mumbai, the Saudi Embassy in New Delhi and One8 Commune in Gurugram.

Australian chef Gary Mehigan is back in India. This time for festival foods

National Geographic show 'India’s Mega Festivals' follows Masterchef Australia's former judge Gary Mehigan on his India tour as he eats beef in Kerala, goat intestines in Madurai, and kebabs in Delhi.

Top global chefs are creating new dishes to stay ahead in the new world of takeout

For restaurants from London to Seattle, staying afloat means exploring all opportunities to serve customers & to keep generating at least some income.

Chef Floyd Cardoz, man behind ‘Tabla’ and ‘The Bombay Canteen’, dies of Covid-19 in New York

The Top Chef Masters winner was the culinary director of Mumbai's The Bombay Canteen and O Pedro, and had revolutionised Indian cuisine in the US.

Jiggs Kalra — the food chief with the gastronomical Midas touch

Jaspal Kalra or Jiggs Kalra, who passed away Tuesday, was a columnist, chef extraordinaire, and restauranteur who put India on the global cuisine map.

How top chefs spoil their dogs

"For his birthday, we did a trio of fish: salmon, cod and tuna, baked in the oven in tinfoil parcels. He is so fussy, he can spot anything cheap."

The only Indian restaurant in world top 100 is Delhi’s Indian Accent

Another Indian who made a mark on the list was Kolkata-born chef Gaggan Anand whose Bangkok restaurant 'Gaggan' ranked at number 5 and topped Asia. Osteria...

Anthony Bourdain never cocooned himself in the stereotype of a happy, smiling chef

Anthony Bourdain was never scared of speaking the truth on what he thought of chefs who were given demi-god status in television shows.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.