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What to eat in Chennai: 8 dishes and where to find them
From dawn idlis to midnight Mysore pak, Tamil Nadu's capital serves its best food in tiffin rooms, Chettinad kitchens and one restaurant where you pay what you feel.
Chettinad chicken curry recipe: the roast-and-grind method
Tamil Nadu's signature curry gets its depth from whole spices roasted before grinding, not after. Here's the Chettinad technique, with or without the region's hardest-to-find aromatics.
Lagan nu custard recipe: the Parsi wedding dessert
Reduced milk, cardamom and nutmeg, baked low and slow in a water bath: the dessert Parsi weddings close on, as Cyrus Todiwala's Café Spice Namasté pauses.
Chef Damu, Cooku with Comali judge, dies in Chennai at 72
The Padma Shri recipient set the Guinness record for the longest individual cooking marathon in 2010 and judged Star Vijay’s Cooku with Comali from its first season.
Air India business class swaps the tray for plated courses
Flights between India and the UK now serve appetisers, mains and desserts one by one on linen. The airline talks about fine dining, but names no chef and no dish.
Samyukta Nair opens Makaan, a Gujarati restaurant in Mumbai
The London restaurateur behind Jamavar and Bombay Bustle makes her India debut in Juhu, serving Gujarati home cooking with business partner Karan Shah of Swati Snacks.
Indri's Diwali whisky ages in Portuguese port casks
Piccadily Agro's Haryana distillery releases a 58.5% single malt finished in ruby port wood, limited to 180 bottles and priced at £200 in the UK.
Kashmir saffron nears flowering after a 31.2°C October day
Growers around Pampore say the soil is too dry for the crocus to flower well. The weather office promises light rain on 10 October, and the last official harvest figure is three years old.
Indian single malt: Allied Blenders backs Aurangabad plant
The maker of Officer's Choice will put up to 115 crore rupees into a malt distillery and warehouse in Maharashtra, targeting three million litres a year.
India tea exports drop 16% in the first seven months of 2026
Provisional Tea Board figures show export earnings down 13.8% even as the average price per kilo rose, with the sharpest fall in the first quarter as West Asia shipping routes were disrupted.
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