tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69017378384668327502011-07-07T16:51:07.833-07:00... side trips on the journey of a book from idea to reality.Rushinanoreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901737838466832750.post-5968550029460455582008-07-25T02:33:00.000-07:002008-07-25T04:07:55.467-07:00

Moras Bhajjji seller The Moras Bhajji Kantola seller The KantolasMost cookbooks have a buying guide, but for My Mumbai cookbook, even that section has to be a little different. I am going to be writing on some of the markets I have grown up shopping in. And Vikram's excellent column on Bhajji galli ~"Mumbai has many good vegetable markets, but Bhaji Gali near Grant Road station is

Rushinanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901737838466832750.post-27574849916550555832008-07-24T00:32:00.000-07:002008-07-24T00:32:00.294-07:00

Even before I signed the contract for My Mumbai Cookbook, I was making big plans. It would be a runaway best seller and become so famous that I would get a book deal out of it and then a TV show et. etc. My classic case of counting chickens screeched to a resounding halt when I got down to actually writing it. I spen ages agonising over the dedication page, I didn't want to miss anyone! (It it

Rushinanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901737838466832750.post-32639852802349600832008-07-20T06:55:00.000-07:002008-07-20T06:55:00.644-07:00

Now that I have signed on the dotted lines, I can put my characteristic Virgo caution to rest and do a virtual jig! I am excited to share the news that my book, "My Mumbai cookbook" has been taken on for publication by Tranquebar press. Tranquebar Press is a literary imprint that, along with Westland Books and Landmark Bookstores are currently owned by the Tatas. Tranquebar Press was launched

Rushinanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901737838466832750.post-79723908640308894602008-07-18T02:34:00.000-07:002008-07-18T03:03:19.030-07:00

A couple of weeks ago, Aunty Savia came to stay with me, loaded with spice pastes, pickles, goan sausages, vinegar and Mangad - mango jam made of local mangoes that are high in pectin.Aunty Savia, is a college friend of my mother's. Thanks to her, my mother became an amazing baker and our our childhood memories are enriched with a variety of baked goodies and Easter Marzipan. Aunty Savia had a

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Lunch -which I was supposed to help cook... well I did manage to stir the curry before I put it on the table - consisted of pomfret done two ways; in a curry of coconut juice flavoured with the ubisquitious bottle masalla and local cane vinegar, and also two rather large specimens stuffed with coconut chutney and pan fried in banana leaves (a dish I found very reminiscent of Parsi Patra ni

Rushinanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901737838466832750.post-48559996177836448842008-06-01T23:17:00.000-07:002008-07-03T07:20:06.203-07:00

The East Idian chapter of My Mumbai Cookbook will actually come up much later in my writing schedule but the legendary Bottle masala is only made this time of the year (January to April). It also has a 'secret recipe' so when I found a friend whose mom was ready to share the making of it, I grabbed the chance. I surmounted all odds to get there the stipulated weekend, planning things

Rushinanoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6901737838466832750.post-59679863519265234192008-05-27T03:38:00.001-07:002008-05-27T04:02:09.687-07:00

I once cut a million teeny - weeny happy faces to put in a letter to a friend who was ill so that he would open the envelope and have them fall all over and perhaps bring him some happiness.I have never been able to do anything on a small scale…As an art student at school, I always chose the largest canvases to fill, later in animation school the story idea I animated involved several

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