scorecardresearch
Add as a preferred source on Google
Friday, August 21, 2026

Support our Journalism

9th Anniversary: Free Tote & Mug

Subscribe
TopicFood

Topic: food

Only 3% of food safety violations over last 5 years ended in convictions, Parliament data shows

Data shows that in 75% of the 1.85 lakh cases where food safety authorities established adulteration, the violation was punished with a monetary penalty.

Never cook in anger. Eating that food will make you angrier

In 'Anger', Narayani Ganesh examines how this emotion has been analysed in spiritual teachings and philosophies worldwide.

Anthony Bourdain gets a biopic. ‘Tony’ zooms in on one summer in 1975

Dominic Sessa, of The Holdovers fame, steps into Bourdain’s shoes, playing him at 19 as he lands his first kitchen job in mid-1970s Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

‘Cook like it’s 1975’—A women-only Gurugram workshop on food, memory and heritage

City Girls Who Walk Delhi brought strangers together to rediscover the 'essential life skill' of traditional Indian cooking at Urban Degh in Gurugram.

The Indian thali has evolved over a decade. From cereals to proteins, new study finds

A recent study published in Nature by Professor Shamika Ravi finds that India's food consumption landscape has transformed with significant implications for nutrition security.

Kolkata biryani wars get 2 new challengers in Dada Boudi, Hanglaatherium

While much of India debates whether Lucknowi, Hyderabadi or Kolkata biryani is superior, Bengal’s argument has turned inward: which local biryani deserves loyalty now as the new contenders challenge old guards Arsalan and Aminia.

‘Shrikhand crème brûlée’ doesn’t reflect ‘Naya Bharat’. Stop complicating state banquet menus

When regional dishes are aerated, skewered, and brûléed into abstraction, they begin to read like thesis statements.

How basic Bengali food became a premium experience at Sienna

At this Kolkata restaurant, home flavours, forgotten traditions and hyperlocal sourcing meet a new, paying audience.

A tiffin, a lie & an ageing marriage—Thursday Special builds conflict around food

Presented by Shoojit Sircar and Vikramaditya Motwane, Thursday Special has won 25 awards in global film festivals, including Best Narrative Short at New York Indian Film Festival.

Palak paneer prejudice and the food racism Indians face abroad

This is a case of conflict within a multicultural society. The question is, how can minority practices that offend majority sensibility coexist in the same place and be reconciled?

On Camera

Iran can survive the war. But the cost of survival is changing

While the US military campaign couldn’t fetch strategic outcomes, the IRGC’s capacity to disrupt does not mean that Iran has escaped tne cumulative cost either.

India’s UPI needs reform, not US pressure

PM Modi’s govt is doing the right thing with its efforts to prevent this $4 trillion-a-year industry from choking on its own high-volume, zero-profit success, Andy Mukherjee writes.

India, Japan look at joint naval shipbuilding, technology transfer with pact to deepen defence ties

Maritime security agreement opens avenues for joint development of naval ships and design, greater use of Indian shipbuilding and repair facilities by Japan.

Gen Vaidya won 2 Maha Vir Chakras, fell to assassins’ bullets 40 yrs ago. India forgot a great soldier

Forty years ago this week, ‘Khalistan Commando Force’ assassins were closing in on Gen Vaidya. So callous was the security of the just-retired Army chief that he was given a solitary police gunman