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Eating Food Is Like Making Love
Bollywood�s No. 1 star tells MARK MANUEL that he can go without food and drink because he is not a foodie, that he doesn�t understand wines, and because his parents were restaurateurs... he misses their khana!

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Hare Rama! Hare Krishna!
Dev & Zeenat Flashback On Food

If being dedicated and passionate about your work is the fountainhead of everlasting youth, then DEV ANAND, at 80-plus, is still in his early teens. But it took the lovely ZEENAT AMAN, whom he introduced to Bollywood with Hare Rama Hare Krishna in 1972, to bring out the boy in him.

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Bombay Meri Hai!
Welcome to Bombay, to its melting pot of cuisines, to its several hundred thousand restaurants, each catering to a different taste and a different budget.

uppercrust foods
The Queen of Spices
Cardamom is used almost exclusively in sweets and milky desserts in its native Kerala and Sri Lanka, but this fragrant spice goes well with rich curries too. Tea and coffee are spiked with cardamom too.





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'tis the season
Papaya
This oval-shaped tropical fruit with its rich golden-yellow skin, juicy and silky-smooth flesh, and its exotic, sweet-tart flavour, is a delicacy. Packed with shiny black seeds, papayas are digestives and are said to have miraculous curative effects on diabetics. Ripe papayas can be sliced and eaten by themselves or served with a range of other foods. They can also be cooked to make chutney or various desserts. Revel in the sweet taste of the warm ripe papaya... go on!

Special feature
Hot Summers, Hotter Ice-Creams!
JATANUJ GARG finds out what made these six celebs scream for rol-lick-icious ice-cream!


eating out
A Little Bit Of Saffron In Everything You Eat!
At Bombay�s new JW Marriott Hotel, MARK MANUEL goes eating out at the Indian restaurant Saffron and discovers the spice in every dish.

wines and spirits
Utterly Captivating On The Palate!
JANCIS ROBINSON, one of the world�s 200 Masters of Wine, who was featured in UpperCrust, gave her opinion on Indian wines to The Financial Times of London. Here are excerpts from what she said.






Suvir Saran
To �Serve� With Love!
Suvir Saran at the Trattoria in Bombay.

Julia carmen DE SA
The Punk Chef!
Executive Chef Julia Carmen de Sa in the kitchen at the Miguel Arcanjo restaurant of the Taj Exotica in Goa.

Torquhil Ian Campbell
Message In A Bottle!
The Duke of Argyll promoting Chivas Regal at the Bayview Bar in The Oberoi at Bombay.


Raveena Tandon
Feedback
Bollywood's �Mast Mast� girl is into looking good and feeling great, and that comes from eating right and living correct, she says. She won't diet, but she'll go on binges of salads and fruit juices. And she won't drink anything but red wine, because it is good for her... but only now and then.




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