Taste of India set to spread roots and flavor in China
You could call it a gut feeling. It was certainly a taste for adventure. Mehernosh Pastakia was sitting down at a well-adorned table at his restaurant in the China Overseas Plaza in Jianguomen Wai...
View ArticleRustom’s Parsi Bhonu
Home-style Parsi food, like your friend Dhun’s mummy used to make it. There’s a sudden flood of appreciation for Parsi food in Delhi, and I’m not at all surprised. With its abundance of meaty fare,...
View ArticleKnow your batasas
Click here : Interiors: Paris Bakery (1955) 287, Dukargully, Dhobi Talao (presently Dr. C. H. Street). When customers at the Paris Bakery ask about the price of a packet of batasa biscuits, Paris’...
View ArticleParsi winter warmer – Vasanu
Meet the makers of vasanu, a Parsi speciality that takes 30 ingredients and calves of steel, and promises to energise the immune system.The first of a series on little-known community sweets Not even...
View Article5 Reasons Why Food-Lovers Must Visit Udvada
Proud Parsi that I am, I like visiting Udvada for quite another reason – the food! This has to be the only town where you can feast like a king on all kinds of Parsi food without having to wait for...
View ArticleWarming up to winter – Bachi Karkaria
It might sound like the name of a corny Parsi comedy, but doodh na puff, as once whipped up by the doughty matrons of the clan, is as vanishing a winter speciality as Vera Aunty’s vasanu. Or Edulji’s...
View ArticleCookbook for a cause
Committee members of Zoroastrian Stree Mandal with the sixth edition of the cook book |Neeraj Murali HYDERABAD: For those who have decided to get into kitchen and try their hand at cooking delicious...
View ArticleOrange Spiced Parsi Chapat
ORANGE SPICED PARSI CHAPAT: AN ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE CREPE FEBRUARY 13, 2015 BY PERI’S SPICE LADLE Last year, during an interview with a prominent newspaper in India, one of the questions alluded to a...
View ArticleMancherji’s – probably the only Parsi food joint in Kolkata
Of all the Indian cuisines, parsi cuisine is one of the most underrated one. Probably, this is due to the fact that the parsi population in India is slowly diminishing. However, there is a joint in...
View ArticleIrani Winery at Napa Valley – California
Dear Friends, This may interest some of you. Found little bit of old Persia in California’s Napa Valley where you may sample the Shiraz amongst other wines made by a Persian named Darioush Khaledi...
View ArticleMeet Youngest Female Chef – Anahita Dhondy
Anahita Dhondy is a Chef Manager at the very famous SodaBottleOpenerWala. Being a Parsi herself, she brings in the trademark flavours of Parsi food at two restaurants of SodaBottleOpenerWala in...
View ArticleCHAALO, JAMYE?
Instead of booking a table at a city Bawa eatery on Parsi new year, drive to Udwada for boi, dal-chawal and patio 1. The Hormuzd Bakery stall outside Iranshah Atash Behram stocks crumbly nankhatais...
View ArticleBatasa
Batasa Simple tea biscuits which have a long history and a wonderful legendary story. The Dutch had left the shores of the West Port City of Surat, India in the 1700’s where a flourishing bakery was...
View ArticleFinely Chopped Parsi Food Walk, 28th March 2015
MAR 23 Announcing the post Navroze Finely Chopped Parsi Food Walk, 28th March 2015 Saturday, 21st March, was Navroze, the Parsi spring festival, originally observed as the new year in Iran. You might...
View ArticleMonograph on Zoroastrian Heritage & Nutrition – for Distribution
Dear friends, Some of the most popular pages on the Zoroastrian Heritage website and blog are the ones relating to Nutrition – in particular the monograph, “Nutrition – Were Ancient Zoroastrians &...
View ArticleA tryst with Parsi flavours
Red Fork in Indiranagar offers a range of contemporary items. Though it provides great breakfast options, burgers and salads, it is mainly known for the delicious Parsi food it serves. The menu here is...
View ArticleFor the love of eggs
Cheese and eggs at Smokehouse Deli On the love of eggs that unite Parsis and Bengali I tried the eggs and cheese scrambled egg at Bandra’s Smoke House Deli recently and immediately thought of how...
View ArticleThe Food Gallery
Dear All, This is to inform all members that Farhad Aibara (My partner) and myself have started a new business in the food industry. We are known by the name of The Food Gallery and operate from Shop...
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