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Leaving tonight for Austin + NYC. 10 days. Meeting the great lord eddd for an old-fashioned SigFood trail :-).

Folks,

Antoine Lewis "will be speaking on the history of public dining in Mumbai from the early 1800s to the present. The lecture will be held on the 28th of Feb at 7.30pm at Hotel Ritz, Churchgate."Antoine knows the subject very well, and he is the editor of Savvy Cookbook. He kick-started the Bombay-On-The-Menu group with an expanded version of ( Read more... )

.. I will be running some more. I will follow some of Hal Higdon's intermediate half-marathon training schedule. It is a little more in distance and speed training than what I need or want right now, but it will keep me well challenged. I plan to do this 12 week program in about 8 weeks, in time for the StanChart Mumbai half marathon on 20th ( Read more... )

Day 1 - Stretch and strengthen ( Read more... )

The wife declared a holiday yesterday and the husband had to dutifully obey ;-). The plan was to have lunch at Bukhara followed by shopping and a movie somewhere. Only the first happened, the rest is pushed to the weekend :-)

We decided to have lunch at Bukhara in ITC Maurya. The restaurant figures regularly in the world's top 50 restaurant list. ( Read more... )

I have finally overcome inertia and started exploring Delhi again. The hinderances till now were the heat, lack of transport, and the thesis monster dancing on my head. The monster has nearly been dealt with, and Rahul, my new temporary roomie, is here with his car ( Read more... )

The past week has been good personally. First of all people from Bombay are making me feel at home ( Read more... )

There is a subtle difference between restaurants in Delhi and Bombay. In Bombay the waiters/captains always serve the dishes into your plate after naming the dish and asking for veg/non-veg preferences. In Delhi they just name the dish and put it on the table; you have to serve yourself or specifically ask to be served. The naming and the asking is ( Read more... )

Yesterday! It had rainded pretty much the whole day; not heavy but just a little bit by Bombay standards :). So when Rahul pointed out a rainbow from his window view seat, it set off an amazing evening for me. First all the other people in our wing and a few Profs descended there to look out of the window on our side of the building. Soon we all ( Read more... )