APPETITE FOR A STROLL – A Hearty Meal from the Heart of India – MOUTHWATERING KOLHAPURI MEMORIES

A Kolhapuri meal, unique in its simplicity, comprises a variety of lip-smacking, earthy, flavorsome, nourishing dishes and is so complete that it creates within you a inimitable hearty wholesome sense of fulfillment, and is a welcome change from the ubiquitous fatty and greasy-rich Makhanwalla, Masala, Kadhai, Handi, Naan, Biryani, Punjabi and Mughlai style fare you eat day in and day out.

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]

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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 [...]

The Art of Tea Making – Amrut Tulya Pune Style

THE ART OF TEA MAKING   –   AMRUT TULYA  PUNE STYLE
 
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VIKRAM KARVE
 
 
 
When I was a small boy in the nineteen sixties Pune was a “Tea Town”. Everyone drank tea and all over the town there were chiefly two types of tea for the laidback discerning gourmet Punekar to relish – AMRUT TULYA CHAHA at the ubiquitous [...]

Bhagat Tarachand Pune

A HEARTY MEAL IN THE HEART OF PUNE
  
By
  
VIKRAM KARVE
     My wife is a pure vegetarian. So when we eat out together we prefer a pure vegetarian restaurant. And when you are really famished there’s nothing better to satiate your hunger than a sumptuous wholesome vegetarian thali. When we were in Mumbai our favourite Value for Money [...]

A Yummy Indian Cuisine – Dabba Gosht – Recipe

Want to try dabba gosht – just click the link below
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/dabba-gosht-my-all-time-favorite.htm
Happy Eating
Vikram Karve
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com

A SATIATING DAY IN MUMBAI

A SATIATING NON-VEG DAY IN MUMBAI
  
By
  VIKRAM KARVE   

Good Morning, dear Reader – come spend a satiating Non-Veg Foodie day with me in Mumbai.   

BREAKFAST
    
I start early, at dawn, from my house near Churchgate, admire, in the early morning pre-sunrise light, the impressive silhouettes of the magnificent Gothic structures of the High Court and Mumbai University across the [...]

MUMBAI BY NIGHT – EATING OUT

SEAFOOD IN KOLIWADA

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VIKRAM KARVE
You must have noticed a dish called “Fish Koliwada” or “Prawn Koliwada” on the menu cards of many restaurants. Recipe books too feature “Koliwada” recipes, and I’ve observed a few eateries featuring “Koliwada” in their names. But have you gone to the one and only Sion-Koliwada (in Mumbai) from which these yummy [...]

TV AND THE TRENCHERMAN

TV and the Trencherman
 
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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 [...]

Eating Out in Churchgate Mumbai

Kheema Pav, Bun Maska and Chai at Churchgate
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VIKRAM KARVE
When I used to live in Empress Court, opposite the Oval, near Churchgate, I would rise at dawn, as the clock on Rajabai Tower struck Six, and go for a long brisk walk all the way to Chowpatty, and on my return, I would head for Stadium [...]

KACHORI – MY FAVORITE FAST FOOD

MY FAVORITE “FAST” FOOD
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VIKRAM KARVE

My wife observes and indulges in (and consequently subjects me to) all types of fasts. She fasts on Mondays, Chaturthies and any occasion she wants to fast. Actually, her “fasts” are not true fasts in the rigorous real sense, only a change of food, to what I call “fast food” which [...]