The India segment (starts at 2:12) of the Travel Channel’s Internation Street Food show gives a comprehensive overview of the variety of street food available in Bombay. The video does have some non-vegetarian stuff (6:02 to 7:29). This also explains how vegetarians in India can survive on vegetarian food. Indian vegetarian is more than uncooked…

aka The Artisan Pizza Robust Inspired Tomato Sauce, Cheese, Green Peppers, Roasted Red Peppers, Banana Peppers, Shredded Parmesan Asiago, No Sliced Italian Sausage.

This is quite an interesting story about entrepreunership, perseverence, and innovation, in food. Dosa, as a friend of mine quite aptly defines, is a rice tortilla; by the same logic, Idli is swollen-oval bread.  Dosa Plaza is an Idli-Dosa franchise, much like Dominos. Started by Prem Ganathapy, Economic Times has done an excellent story on…

I like to try out new things but when I am really hungry I prefer the tried and tested. Sitting hungry in school me and my friend decided to order in some Mexican food since, well, it is the closest to Indian food in the US. She suggested the Mexican pizza from Alto Cinco and…

FYI, Pav is a bread. Now… I felt like cooking on a Tuesday. I get this kick every few days and I walk in my kitchen like an executive chef—a man on a mission—pan in one hand and a knife in the other. My kitchen usually has the basic vegetables—those that I can consume without…

Onions, Apples and butternut–probably not the best sounding soup ingredients but somehow Brueggers manages to come up with a soup that is “interesting.” The taste is quite different with neither Apple nor Butternut overpowering the soup but at the same time it feels a little sweet and sour. Add to this the thickness of soups…

Desi veg burger that doesn’t have soy.  Soy, yuck.

Soy and paneer. Fucking soy, turning everything meat into vegetarian.

As much as I liked the ambiance of Banana Leaf, the food didn’t disappoint. Having ordered it over phone when I was in India, going to the restaurant was nice. My kid brother ordered this dish which is idli in rasam (a south Indian preparation that is similar to the the sambhar but very thin,…