Parsi Khabar

By Dipti Nagpaul D’souza For a true foodie, there isn’t a feast bigger than the Parsi New Year. On the day of the feast, you’ll find a non-follower for every Zoroastrian queued up outside city restaurants offering Parsi cuisine to the patrons. With merely a handful of days left for Pateti, Mumbaikars are already making [...]

A Dhansak that dates back to the 1930’s Circa 1965, when Villie Mehta would feverishly cook in the kitchen of the Victory stall at Apollo Bunder, her biggest worry was the dhansak going out of stock. Mehta, now 78, was terrified of a customer turning up only to find the Parsi delicacy missing in the [...]

ABC Farms: The Parsi-run establishment, by the trio of Rohinton Aga, Adi Bathena and Eruch Chinoy (hence the ABC), have over 60 varieties of cheeses. ABC farms: 20-26810555. All local cheeses retail in and around their dairies. A few like ABC farms, Kodai cheese and Sikkim cheeses are available at national supermarket chains. You know [...]

Around the corner from Spicy Leaves, Panini’s proprietor Dinyar Anklesaria has an exciting sideline to his main business of providing sandwiches for the lunchers of Los Altos. Anklesaria, Indian born and of the Parsi minority, cooks some Parsi classic dishes on Saturdays for those who know enough to request them. His dhansak, a chicken or [...]

Kunal Vijaykar….the famous foodie takes you on a pilgrimage to Udvada…..but its not a religious pilgrimage. Its a Food pilgrimage. Be warned that this will leave you all hungry and yearning for some lip smacking food. Check out part 2 and 3 on Times Now

If you miss the adorable girl from the ‘I Love You Rasna’ campaign, then this news is going to be heartening for you. The Ahmedabad-based Rasna Group is likely to launch chairman Piruz Khambatta’s daughters Arzeen, 7, and Avan, 3, as the new Rasna mascots. Arzeen and Avan have pipped Bollywood celebrities and the cricketing [...]

The following interview appeared on Livemint The UK-based wholly owned subsidiary of New York-listed Molson Coors Brewing Co., Coors Brewers Ltd, has acquired majority stake in Karan Bilimoria-owned Cobra Beer Ltd. It will pay £14 million (around Rs105 crore) for a 50.1% stake in a new joint venture company called Cobra Beer Partnership Ltd. Bilimoria [...]

RAWALPINDI, PAKISTAN // The stout walls of the Murree Brewery serve as a reminder that there is more to Pakistan than the Taliban. The news headlines in recent weeks have focused on how Taliban militants had arrived only 96 metres from the capital, Islamabad. Before being beaten back this week by security forces, the militants [...]

Kalyan Karmarkar writes a wonderful post with great pictures about a Wednesday lunch at Rippon Club. You get dhansak for lunch at a few restaurants such as Britannia, Mocambo and Paradise at South Bombay and Snack Shack (weekends) at Bandra. But some of the best dhansaks are available at old Parsi clubs such as Elphinstone [...]

Lucky, lucky Beachlands residents! They have in the heart of town a superb Indian restaurant where the talented chef can char-grill a steak or prepare the perfect saagwala with equal ease. Formerly the Pohutukawa Café, Zara’s is fast gathering a following of patrons who have discovered that owners Mehernosh and Diana Kotwal are absolutely dedicated [...]

By Kavitha Rao MUMBAI | As Mumbai’s classical architecture gives way to skyscrapers, the curious traveler needs to be quick to see those parts of old Bombay that still remain. There were once Iranian cafes at nearly every corner in south Mumbai. Originated by Iranian immigrants in the 19th century, they provided cheap food and [...]

TIME Magazine: Deena Guzder With the warmth of an endearingly eccentric relative, 86-year-old Boman Kohinoor of Britannia Restaurant, tel: (91-22) 2261 5264, in south Mumbai, exclaims, "You must try the berry pulav, which my wife introduced in 1982 after returning from a trip to Iran." A waiter appears moments later with saffron golden rice and [...]

By Mark Manuel for the Times of India. Sahebji, and Navroze Mubarak! I present Boman Irani and Shenaz Treasuryvala, Zoroastrians both; he a blustery and excitable Irani, she a petite Shenaz Treasuryvala and Boman Irani have a Navroze breakfast exclusively and pretty Parsi, both making news in Bollywood for different reasons. They met over breakfast [...]

Mumbai: It’s that time of the year again — a day when every Parsi home will prepare traditional foods in a special lunch, for March 21 that marks the vernal equinox is special to Iranis and Paris everywhere. Hearty Meal: Pearl and Hafeez Contractor It’s a time of joy and festivity," state architect Hafeez and [...]

A Zororastrian celebration of this often-overlooked cuisine is the perfect antidote to Lenten guilt By Alex Renton Tonight we’re going to eat Persian: herbed and spiced rice, smoked fish, baklava and wine. For it is the spring equinox, and party time for many people in Iran and across western Asia. They mark the moment in [...]