Food & Drink

Buying gifts can be a bit of a minefield, right? Most of us know the people we are gifting fairly well, so we know what kind of ballpark we should be operating in but then, so many of the people we know seem to have everything they could ever want or need, and when we …

You are standing at a cart in Mumbai. The vendor scoops puffed rice, diced onion, and boiled potato into a paper cone. Then a drizzle of green chutney, a squirt of sweet tamarind sauce, a pinch of chaat masala. You take a bite — sour, spicy, sweet, crunchy. That is bhel puri, and it is …