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Chefs’ new recipe for success
Pushpesh Pant
Cooking has emerged from the shadows of the kitchen and invaded our living rooms through the small screen
 There
was a time, how very long ago it seems, when those who could afford
two square meals in this country considered themselves blessed. This
was before the dawn of the age of plenty post-Green Revolution and
much, much before the advent of glitzy recipe shows hosted by
celebrity chefs who behave like prima donnas of a ballet troupe at the
Bolshoi.
Devender Kumar of Le Meridien who writes simple do-it-yourself cookbooks
Music
Tune
in to mariachi
Neha Saini
Flor de Toloache, the first
and only women mariachi band from the US, is doing much more than
holding nationwide concerts in India. It is also an expression of
women’s empowerment and cross-cultural collaboration
Fitness
Good health
Ticker-friendly tips
Dr Anjali Mukerjee
WHEN
people develop heart disease they stop eating eggs, give up butter and
switch to margarine. The so-called-healthy margarine is nutritionally
worse than butter as it contains hydrogenated fats or trans fatty
acids. (These are unnatural fats which raise total cholesterol, reduce
good cholesterol and make the blood sticky). Little do they realise
that it's not just the butter and eggs which are the culprits. All
through their lives they've been eating out in restaurants, consuming
huge amounts of high-fat milk, maida, sugar, chocolates, processed
foods, farsan etc.
Health Capsules
Kids who sleep more have less weight
Washington:
A new study has found that kids who tend to sleep more, may actually be eating less. The study by Chantelle Hart, associate professor of public health at Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education (CORE), is the first known study to examine the impact of sleep on children's eating behaviours by manipulating the amount of sleep that study participants were able to get. The study involved 37 children, ages 8 to 11; 27 per cent of whom were overweight or obese.
Society
Lesser-known power of moonlight
Deepak Rikhye
Observations have revealed that some plant growth is influenced by the light of the moon. Some plants have adaptive mechanisms that prevent this light from interfering with photoperiodism
For an out-of-the-box lunchbox
Harshika Arora
From the day a child is born, the mother holds herself responsible for the health, hygiene and other factors that affect her baby’s growth. Be it nutrition or education, it’s the mom who is supposed to handle it. Doctors advise more protein intake, grannys come up with their own daadi ma ke nuskhe, friends always end up suggesting the junk food. It is finally left to the discretion of the mother as to decide what may be good.
Soul Talk
Spouses make life with cancer better
According to a study
authored by Dr Ayal Aizer in the Journal of Clinical Oncology,
marriage appears to provide an edge to cancer patients. The study
points out that married people are 17 per cent more likely to be
diagnosed in the initial phase of the cancer, before it has spread.
Not just that the trifold advantage marriage offers also mean that
they are 53 per cent more likely to get apt treatment and go through
with it.
Travel
City
of winds
The windy city of Azerbaijan,
Baku, located 28 metres below sea level, is known for its medieval
attractions
Mohan K. Tikku
Baku, the capital of
Azerbaijan, has its equivalent of Delhi's Walled City. It is called
Ichari Sheher, the Inner City. Many of the landmarks that dot its
lanes, by lanes and handkerchief-sized courtyards hark back to the
medieval ages when the place used to be a bustling trading centre on
the Silk Route. But the most prominent of the city's landmarks is the
Maiden Tower. It is a huge pillar built with stone and mortar. It is
also a Unesco Heritage site.
Globetrotting:
Camel safari
Entertainment
Flavour
of Indian cinema catches on
Saibal Chatterjee
Films with India and Indians as the theme have had a great run at the global boxoffice lately. In fact, these are increasingly breaking boundaries and making connections through faith, food and families
The
good guy
Swati Rai
It is difficult to imagine
Gulshan Grover, the B-town baddie of the 1990s,essaying the role of a
Harvard University Professor settled in Mandawa, Rajasthan, but that’s
exactly what this multi-talented star did recently in the Kitu Ghosh’s
Sooper se Upar! According to Grover, this was the beginning of
author-backed roles ahead!
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