Despite a near zero inflation, food costs in India are at an all-time high. Potato, typically a staple in all homes, rich and poor, and a main ingredient in regular, every day snacks and curries across the continent, is at an astounding high of Rs 35 per kg; roughly three quarters of a dollar.
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Cover charge $4000: Dining on ridiculously snobby tables
Posted by Anoothi Vishal on October 21st, 2009
Posted in Restaurants 
Tags: Amti, Arhar, Cooking At Home, Cottage Cheese, Delhi India, Dhabas, Fancy Place, Fancy Restaurants, Food Capital, Food Costs, Food Shortage, Maurya, North India, Roadside Diners, Sister Restaurant, Star Restaurant, Thick Wedges, Three Quarters, Vegetarian Dishes, Zero Inflation 
Comments OffCuisine of the Mughals
Posted by Anoothi Vishal on June 5th, 2009
Historian Salma Husain’s book brings back the past with its extensive research into Mughal kitchens and the food habits and recipes of the emperors:
Husain is known in India as the original “kebab lady”—having researched into the beginnings of the kebabs and traced their history back, not to the muslim rule in India, but further back to Rig Vedic times of the early Aryans, who would conduct elaborate horse sacrifices and such and pieces of meat would be roasted for a meal.
