Pastry Chef Mario Lara’s recipes for Puddings
Executive Pastry Chef MARIO LARA of the Oberoi Towers in Bombay says puddings are his kind of food. In America, where he comes from, they eat puddings during winter. But in India, it makes a good monsoon food.

Recipes for Sindhi Cuisine
Sindhi cuisine is full of sumptuous dishes and homespun wisdom, discover UpperCrust as it joins a table of Bombay’s eminent members of the enterprising community that came on to stay from Pakistan.

Peaches
Monsoon is the season for peaches. Have ‘em with cream, make peach shakes, peach pies and peach tarts... some of the world’s greatest desserts are made with peach. Blend peaches with milk and create a heavenly milkshake. Eat ripe peaches with ice cream or whipped cream. But if you don’t want to make a dessert out of it you can relish the tangy-sweet taste of this rich, golden-coloured exotic fruit in its raw and pure form too.

Recipes for East Indian Cuisine
The Catholic community of East Indians in Bombay has a cuisine that is as distinct from that of the Goans and Mangaloreans. It is a cuisine rich in meats and fish... and heritage, discovers UpperCrust while dining at the table that had been blessed by the presence of a Cardinal!

Recipes for Khoja Cuisine
The Khoja community of Shia Muslims celebrates a cuisine that is Mughlai, but vastly different from the Hyderabadi and Lucknowi schools of cooking, discovers the UpperCrust while joining a gathering of its members over lunch

Recipes for Paya
Trotters make a rich, nourishing and warming food during the monsoon, says ITC Grand Maratha Sheraton’s cuisine expert JAVED AKBAR.

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