A bunch of us went to dinner at I.T.alia at The Park (the top-ranked Italian joint in town) to check out their new menu. Since one of us knew the chef, we got a "tasting menu" of some of their best food. The food was excellent, I must say.

And of course, I took lots of photos with my camera to share with you. Here are a few:


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I posted this on the Flickr forum because I see this as serious incompetence on the part of Flickr.I am a little pissed right now ( Read more... )

Just had an interesting phone conversation with my father. He calls up to ask about some stuff, and after we're through, here is how the conversation goes ( Read more... )

Finally, I have managed to get past my laziness and post a new recipe on my chef blog. This one is for Thai Tom Kha soup.

Picture of the darn thing:


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The American Idol final is being shown tonight, but I don't really give a rat's arse who wins it. Melinda Doolittle, the best singer by a mile in the competition, was voted out last week, and my interest in the show departed with her. That lady was a pro!

As someone on the Television Without Pity forum wrote, this year's final three results were ( Read more... )

Well, the good news is that the healthy eating plan I've been following for the last 2 weeks or so seems to be paying off and I have actually lost an inch or so around my waist. I've been eating food like this:


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Apparently, a judge in Jaipur has issued a warrant for Richard Gere's arrest after he destroyed Indian culture by kidding Shilpa Shetty on the cheek a few times. I quote:

'After examining video foot-age of the event, the judge said that the stars’ behaviour was “highly sexually erotic”, “transgressed all limits of vulgarity” and “denigrated” Indian ( Read more... )

Why do some people come to my South-east Asian restaurant and then insist that I serve fortune cookies? For one, I am not running a Chinese restaurant, and for another, fortune cookies were invented in USA, and are not from China.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

"Khans off the big list", screams today's Times of India on its front page, complete with a picture of Amitabh Bachan greeting guests at the sangeet ceremony of his son's wedding. The story hogs most of the attention.

"Car bomb kills 140 in Baghdad", on the other hand, gets a cursory one-line mention in the left column.

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Update: You can find a digicam shot of the article here: http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/2911/madmanindiatodaykf8.jpg

To my Bangalore amigos: If you read India Today, please take a peek at the "Simply Bangalore" supplement on page 36 and you will see the intimidating photo of yours truly with a wok, along with a write-up.

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