Food and Beverage Articles

For those who have grown sipping Irani Chai but are worried about the shutting down of the famous cafes serving them, there is good news. AD Singh and his wife Sabina, promoters of Olive Bar &...

With nankatais and other bakery items being sold in barni over the counter in the courtyard and interiors marked with wooden chairs, red and white checkered and crochet table clothes, framed...

Immigrants often compose a large portion of a country’s struggling population. But for Karachi-born and Montreal-raised chef Kim Canteenwalla, success literally came knocking on his door when Buddy...

Ask any stranger about Parsis and the first thing that will come to mind is the Tata family. The second? ‘Dhansak’ – a Sunday favourite in Parsi households and the dish that has made Parsis famous....

It’s been a while since Navroze has passed us by. The more-than-usual excitement over Parsi food is over, the pantry re-filled and the fridge is no longer bursting at its seams with endless packs of...

It's a fight for a seat, and sometimes, a chicken leg, at the Parsi gahambar that celebrates an age-old tradition of praying and feasting. Article By Meher Mirza | Mumbai Mirror At 8 pm on March 21,...

Catering service the Bawi Bride Kitchen, which serves Parsi food, will launch its delivery services next month. sunday mid-day samples a meal, which comprises old Parsi favourites including Sali per...

It is not every day that you see someone wanting to serve their family recipes in a restaurant setting. It is even rare if this restaurant is not a quick service restaurant (QSR) but a humble...

Good friend of Parsi Khabar and amazing chef and author Niloufer Mavalvala is now on Huffington Post. Check out her latest column. Growing up in a generous family in Karachi, our dining table was an...

Last month, London's Bombay-styled cafe Dishoom beat top restaurants such as Michelin-starred Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, Spanish tapas bar Barrafina and other highbrow eateries to became UK's top...

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...

Lace curtains, antique cabinets, wooden chairs, glass ceiling lanterns and family photographs stud the little room, as Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da plays over the speakers. The space is a replica of her own...

For those who have decided to get into kitchen and try their hand at cooking delicious food, without picking up recipes from YouTube and other apps, they can opt for the Zoroastrian Stree Mandal...

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...

Good friends of Parsi Khabar and mother daughter duo Shernaz Petigara (ahuramazda.com) and Perzen Patel (bawibride.com) were on a radio talk show talking about Parsi cuisine and traditions. You can...

Not even Google, in its infinite wisdom, can spell out what precisely goes into vasanu, an exotic Parsi fudge. We hear its ingredients -chaar jaatna magaz, baval nu goonder, cummar kakri, jabar jas...

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,...

Long before he became one of the UK’s foremost chefs, Cyrus Todiwala was orchestrating the kitchens and cutting his teeth as an executive chef in Goa, the colourful former Portuguese colony and now...

Aban Daboo of Aurora, Illinois loves sharing flavors and techniques of Parsi cuisine, the style of cooking she learned growing up in Mumbai, India. Aban Daboo makes it clear what food she loves to...

The year was 1997 and Dawn (the newspaper, not the website) was planning to publish a thick supplement to celebrate the 50th Independence Day of Pakistan, and I was commissioned to write an article...

Two Liverpool inventors have brought their boyhood dream to life. Brothers Kersi and Kayo Kadva’s impatience at waiting for papadums to cook in oil one at a time sparked an idea to quickly satisfy...

The decline in the Bombay Irani cafe culture has been the subject of regular media coverage. In the 1950s, there were about 550 traditional Parsi cafes in South Mumbai. Today, there are less than...

The Parsis are a small community with a rich culinary heritage that a lot of people don’t have a clue about. Recently, Bangalore was treated to an array of authentic Parsi dishes whipped up by none...

The much-loved South Mumbai landmark Joss will re-open in the ’burbs. But the restaurant has changed more than its location, as its menu will now take on a surprising, multi-sensory approach to...

The way Parsis enjoy Bombay Duck is distinct from other communities. Article by Ismat Tahseen, TNN   Says Pervin Marzban Bilimoria who loves to cook the fish, "Vinegar is the trick here. It must be...

Celebrities such as John Abraham and Bomani Irani (as well as several non-Parsi personages) swear by their patra ni machchi, their dhansak is considered among the best in Mumbai and, for the past...

Taking a sip of Pune's very own cold drink : Ardeshir's raspberry soda By Sameer Khan | DNA India Today, 130 years later, Murzban Irani, his great grandson continues the legacy with pride and was...

If there could be one single item that is a staple of every Parsi meal….it has to be the EEDU….eggs. We make eggs or rather “put” eggs on anything and everything. From the usual “papeta par eedu” to...

They say that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. This was of course written with a Parsi man in mind !! And Eat in Style is trying to do exactly that. A new endeavor by Feritta, this...

Ever eaten Parsi food? Probably not, because you won't find it in L.A. or SoCal, unless you have Parsi friends who invite you to their homes.But now there is one restaurant where you can taste it:...

Most of the city’s Parsi food-serving Irani restaurants are around Fort, and fried foods and sweets shop Camy Wafers has a sound and solid reputation among them for the quality of their salli, the...

For decades, Iranian cafes have been a popular haunt for youngsters looking out for their daily quota of bun-maska and chai. Standing strong since 1964, Café Yezdan has seen modernization,...

The blogger and entrepreneur who runs Bawibride.com cooks her grandmother’s prawn curry recipe just in time for Navroze Mamaiji’s secret Perzen Patel is exactly the kind of woman I never want to...

As yet another Irani café announces its closure, we revisit the history of the Irani’s popular staple, the humble ‘mawa’ cake By Pooja Vir | Livemint The year 1981 saw the release of Manmohan...