This past week, I went out to dinner with some friends at Pijja Palace, the sports bar-cum-restaurant in Silver Lake serving up Indian-Italian mash-ups. We ordered their kesar shells and cheese, and ...

I have been on a digital clean-up these past few days, which means wading through 35,000-plus photos on my phone and deleting everything that does not spark joy. What did spark joy were the photos ...

I enjoy planning the menu for a party, whether it’s finger food for a big evening of football or for a party outdoors to celebrate the first warm days of spring that will soon arrive. I want to offer ...

In the Iranian kitchen, the dizzying aroma of sweet saffron mingled with the warm, nutty scent of perfectly steamed rice is a time-honoured call to the table. Even though it is known as the world’s ...

It’s Diwali season, the time when festive dishes are often enriched with saffron. Demand tends to soar for this limited produce, opening the door to inferior or adulterated versions of kesar. How can ...

When Roaya Saleh opened her first restaurant, Villa Mamas, in Bahrain in 2012, she had one goal: to feed people the way her mother fed her – with generosity, soul and spice. A former investment banker ...

Indian chicken dishes boasts of an endless variety. Indian cuisine has a repertoire of rich and wholesome curries that never fails to impress. And if you are a fan of Indian chicken curries you would ...