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 [...]

Mumbai Good Food Guide – Foodie Day

Click the link and enjoy a Foodie Day in Mumbai:
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/foodie-day-in-mumbai.htm
Happy Eating
Vikram Karve
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com

Mumbai Good Food Guide

Eating out in Girgaum – click the link below and savor authentic maharashtrian cuisine in the heart of Mumbai
http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2007/10/mumbai-good-food-guide-eating-out-in-girgaum.htm
happy eating
Vikram Karve

Rustic Indian Chicken Curry

MOUTHWATERING MEMORIES – RUSTIC INDIAN CHICKEN CURRY AT A WAYSIDE DHABA IN VISAKHAPATNAM [VIZAG]
By
VIKRAM KARVE
It’s a cold, damp and depressing evening in the back of beyond place where I now live.. There is an ominous wind, menacing lightening and disturbing thunder, and it starts to rain. Predictably, the lights go off, adding to the gloomy [...]

Pune Food Walk

FOODWALKING IN PUNEby
VIKRAM KARVE
What is ‘loafing’?
Idling away one’s time on useless things? Aimless Loitering. 
Loitering! Sounds a bit derogatory, isn’t it? Okay let’s say it’s aimless wandering. Perfectly useless time spent in a perfectly useless manner! Yes. That’s how I would like to define the art of loafing. Spending perfectly useless time in a perfectly useless [...]

Book Review – Pune Food Guide

Book Review – TIMES PUNE FOOD GUIDE 2007
[Reviewed by Foodie Vikram Karve]
I believe that if you want to write about food you must actually eat it. Being a passionate Foodie is probably more important than being a competent journalist. First hand gastronomic experience is sine qua non for a food guide or restaurant review. That’s [...]

Biryani

MY FAVORITE PLACES FOR BIRYANI
By
VIKRAM KARVE
When I was a small boy living in Pune in the sixties, there were only two places where I liked the Biryani: Dorabjee in Pune Camp and Good Luck at Deccan.
Now, there are a dime a dozen restaurants serving oily, greasy, fiery-hot and over-spiced concoctions of rice masquerading as Biryani. [...]

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 [...]

Eating Out in Churchgate Mumbai

Kheema Pav, Bun Maska and Chai at Churchgate
by
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 [...]