Jason Staines | jason.staines@me.com | 81 posts
One of the first jobs when moving into a new house in India is getting the gas connected. Back home in Sydney you'd just ring the gas company and if the stuff wasn't flowing into your oven before you got off the phone it soon would be. This, of course, isn't Sydney.
February 18, 2011
The Malabar coast is famous for a lot of things, chief among them spices and coconuts - both shown off in this delicious dish that can be made with chicken, prawns or even red meat.
February 18, 2011
In a small dye works outside Delhi, guys in lungis are hard at it soaking, spinning and drying clothes. As they empty old bathtubs full of water for the next batch, the ground floods with water stained a deep indigo blue.
February 11, 2011
India is well-known for its vegetarian fare and one of the best is the roasted eggplant dish, baingan bharta.
February 8, 2011
Delhi is full of old stuff. Most visitors are well-versed in the city’s Ancient A-List – the Red Fort, the Jama Masjid, the Qutub Minar, pretty much every taxi – but some of the most interesting old stuff is dotted across the capital’s sprawling suburbs.
February 4, 2011
This traditional Rajasthani dish can be as hot as you like it - although even I found my first attempt a little too hot.
February 2, 2011
Delhi’s Commonwealth Games left the city with an expanded metro railway system - which has transformed transport and provides a rich source of entertainment, if you can put up with stresses.
December 22, 2010
India is in the grip of an onion crisis, with prices of the essential vegetable doubling in the past two months - causing problems for politicians and restaurateurs alike.
November 15, 2010
I’m not really up to speed with the game of polo, beyond the fact that it appears to be played and watched by toffs – and that at half-time you wander onto the poop-covered turf to stomp divots back into the ground (thank you Richard Gere and Julia Roberts).
September 29, 2010
When checking out one of Delhi's artistic areas, it pays to keep an open mind. You never know what you'll come home with.
February 22, 2011