APPETITE FOR A STROLL Foodie Adventures, Simple Recipes, Musings on The Art of Eating and Vikram Karve’s Authentic Guide to Value For Money Food in Mumbai and Pune

APPETITE FOR A STROLL 
[Foodie Adventures, Simple Recipes, Musings on The Art of Eating and Vikram Karve’s Authentic Guide to Value For Money Food in Mumbai and Pune]

By

VIKRAM KARVE
 
I have recently written a Foodie Adventures Book – Appetite for a Stroll.
Please click the link and read the review of Appetite for a Stroll titled Food for [...]

Aflatoon – an inimitable sweet, an easy recipe

My improvised recipe for aflatoon:
 Just click the link below and read on my creative writing blog
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/aflatoon.htm
Happy eating
Vikram Karve
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com

ITBHU – Alma Mater

Alma Mater
 
 
 
ITBHU  
 
Institute of Technology
 
Banaras Hindu University
 
Varanasi
 
India
 
 
       

On what basis do you judge an educational institution – an Engineering College or a B-School? In today’s world there is just one criterion – market value – the starting salaries and campus placement the students get – [...]

GULAB JAMUN

THE ART OF EATING A GULAB JAMUN
by
VIKRAM KARVE
The art of eating comprises three cardinal steps :
First you learn or come to know about good food – you hear from someone, read somewhere, or come across while browsing the net or from TV or the media or even from a menu card .
Next you go there [...]

TV AND THE TRENCHERMAN

TV and the Trencherman
 
By
 
Vikram Karve
 
 
 
 
I try to masquerade as a connoisseur of good food, a gourmet, but in actual fact I am somewhat of a trencherman – a down to earth foodie with a hearty appetite who loves eating simple authentic earthy food. That’s why I prefer [...]

Malpua and Kheer

MALPUA AND KHEER
[a sumptuous delicious breakfast]
By
VIKRAM KARVE

 
  
The rains have arrived in Pune. No, not the heavy monsoon showers one experiences in Mumbai, but the characteristic Puneri drizzle [pir-pir] with a shower once in a while. Whilst on my evening walk on ITI Road in Aundh last evening I was suddenly caught unawares by one of [...]

Lavang Lata

HERITAGE CUISINE
Lavang Lata at Babumosai
By
VIKRAM KARVE
“Heritage Cuisine” – sounds good isn’t it?
You may presume that this pompous term refers to pretentious traditional high-brow cuisine which adorns the tables of the classes!
In my vocabulary “heritage cuisine” is high-falutin gobbledygook for simple staple down-to-earth local street-food relished by the masses. Like Vada Pav (Mumbai’s “Heritage Burger”), or [...]