A while back, I was talking to
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Try eat congress with raw onion pieces sometime. Unmitigated combination. Soopar taste.

(for the uninitiated, congress is a variety of masala roasted peanut, so called because they use split peanuts rather than the whole. the congress split, remember?)

I spent a part of this lazy sunday morning plucking lemons out of our lemon tree. Despite harvesting more than a hundred lemons a couple of weeks back, there were enough on the tree to merit yet another plucking session. Green lemons, about to turn yellow, hiding behind the leaves, and with the random thorn here and there. At the perfect stage,  I ( Read more... )

Ok for starters, this has nothing to do with my previous post, though both of them relate to food and both of them relate to structuring. In that one, I tried to use food concepts to explain structuring, while here I use the concept of structuring from ibanking and use that framework to explain some food stuff.

Now that those formalities are out of ( Read more... )

The Barista outlet outside Barton centre on M G Road seems to have come up with an excellent way in order to improve their "table turnovers". They simply play loud and jarring music in order to make the stay as unpleasant as possible for the customers. And new ones keep pouring in so they are able to rake in a larger base on which to spread their ( Read more... )

Recently, I had written that the old restaurants in Bangalore need to cash in on their loyalty factor and make use of the inelastic demand in order to remain profitable. Vidyarthi Bhavan in Gandhi Bazaar seems to have gotten it right, at least partially. Of course, they remain closed for lunch and dinner, and on Fridays, thus not making full use of ( Read more... )

Recently, an article on the CNN-IBN site about old eateries in Bangalore shutting shop made its way into my inbox a number of times. Read it the first time, and put a "well left" on all subsequent occasions. And recently, in response to some other totally unrelated post, someone wanted me to comment on it.

initially i thought it's some arbit stupid ( Read more... )

I'm writing this as I eat an apple - a "Washington apple" to be precise. A few years back, I don't think I would've had the luxury of eating an apple in may! The profusion of these "foreign apples" now makes this possible ( Read more... )

Add two extra spoons of sugar to your cappuccino but don't stir. Drink the cappuccino - down to the last drop (a stirrer which can double up as a straw helps). The "residual" caffeineated sugar tastes too awesome. And is at times capable of giving you a maajor high (don't know whether there is actually some chemical reaction which produces some " ( Read more... )

Our office has one pseud coffee machine on the first floor (which doles out pretty good coffee) and a lousy lipton machine on the second floor (which dishes out horrible "cardamom tea" and pathetic "tomato soup"). Given that i sit on the second, i have to make the long voyage down several times every day to keep my blood flowing (mom says this " ( Read more... )