Good Work

Congratulations for bringing out yet another superb issue. It is baffling how UpperCrust manages to keep up the high standard it has set for itself. Without doubt it is my most favourite magazine and if I may add the best that India produces. Keep up the good work.

Ajay Samant, Pune

A Chefs´ Coup

Hats off ! That was a coup getting such famous chefs to team up at the UpperCrust Show for the Celebrity Chefs Cookery Contest. It was very well conducted and everyone present there enjoyed watching the famous five. I was happy to see them on your cover, for a change it was good to see chefs there. But one request, when you take so much trouble arranging such good programmes why don’t you have a mirror placed overhead so we can see what’s cooking!

Avanti Kirloskar, Mumbai

More Recipes, Please

If there is any fault with UpperCrust it is that there are not enough recipes, especially international ones. Please give us more pages of it.

Smriti John, Calicut

Dog A´Fair, Really!

What on earth is UpperCrust doing organising dog carnivals! Not that I am complaining. It was indeed unique and being a dog lover I enjoyed going through all the pages full of such lovely pictures. It does appear that the carnival was a huge success. It looked nice and colourful. Had you advertised it in your earlier issues some of us would have been aware of it and also able to attend it. Will there be another one? And can one buy a fancy dog like the one your editor was carrying like a baby (how charming is that!).

Esther Lang, Mumbai

Destination, super

The synergy between food and travel is very effectively brought out by all your travel stories. It is a pleasure to read UpperCrust. The ‘Destination’ section particularly is very impressive. I don’t get an opportunity to travel much but thanks to UpperCrust I have become an armchair traveller.

Godwin Dias, Goa

Doon, Not So Nice

I was always under the impression that Dehradun was a pretty town at the base of Mussourie. But two years ago when I visited it I was appalled. It was quite dirty and chaotic. So unexpected of an Himalyan town. After seeing it covered in UpperCrust I came to know more about it, stuff I didn’t earlier. I wish someone had told me about Kumar Sweets I would have certainly visited it and picked up sweets to bring back home. A pity.

Meenakshi Khanna, New Delhi

Simply amazing

I make it a point to pick up every issue of UpperCrust if only just to read the Destination stories, nothing else. They are just amazing. To the best of my knowledge you are the only magazine attempting to do something like that. Strangely, you bring every city alive. Farzana Contractor is very good with the camera. The last one on Dehradun and Mussoorie took my breath away. That there could be so much to these two places I would have never known. And though not a food person I do go through the food articles as well. For academic interest and to be able to recommend them to friends. Keep it up and continue writing about Indian Destinations.

Sahil Khan, Aurangabad

Visual Delight

The get-up, presentation, printing, photographs were all a visual delight in the article, “Where The skies Are Blue” and other stories in the UpperCrust Destination of Jan-March 2010. I felt like travelling to Dehradun and Mussoorie, while reading the stories. It clearly reveals the fact that Dehradun today is one of the most developed cities of India where you can get adventure, spiritualism and serenity, amidst the Shivalik ranges, the foothills of Himalayas. Its water is said to cure skin infections and possess other medicinal properties. Mussoorie is one of the most beautiful hill stations in India and the most frequently visited during September to November.

Vinod C Dixit, Ahmedabad

Health Forever

I am glad you have started a column by Dr Nandita Shah. After publishing all those sinful recipes and writing reviews on restaurants, it is a good idea to bring us down to earth and remind us to take care of our health. Hopefully at some stage Dr Shah will point out how to stay slim, fit and young forever.

Sonya Shah, Ahmedabad

Compliments

Let me first compliment you on the fantastic magazine which you publish every quarter. I have all your issues and I suggest if anybody is feeling low, Upper Crust is an absolute mood lifter. It is a real feel- good magazine. Your article in the last issue about our Stick Jaw Toffee and Dehradun were very well written. I was in the ice cream industry, making Kwality Ice Creams for nearly 25 years. After Mr M.K.Ghai of Kwality Dehradun sold his restaurant he passed on the formula of toffee making to me. I am now into chocolate and toffee making which are hand crafted. With the grace of God we are vendors to Spencers, Big Bazar and Lucknow Landmark and various other establishments in Lucknow. I implore you to continue bringing out UpperCrust as beautifully as you do.

Raj Ghai, Lucknow

A BrainWave

Metro-Centric, that’s a brainwave. I always wondered why UpperCrust did not include Delhi in its pages and now I see that you have made a start. I hope you will stick to your promise and give us culinary news from other, newer cities too. Bangalore will be a good one to add. And Calcutta too.

Madhu Kumar, New Delhi

Retro Sweets

The article ‘Auld Lang Syne´ was rather interesting, a good concept. But for cupcakes which have suddenly become popular again and the odd caramel custard I haven’t eaten any of those classic desserts since a long time. As for Chef Verma of The Trident holding that tub of Fruit Trifle, I wanted to just grab it from his hand and eat it all! Why did you not publish those recipes. Can you please do so in your next issue.

Megha Trivedi, Chennai

Unique Stories

The reason why your magazine has an edge over others in the market is you do some out of the box thinking and provide very off beat matter. For example the Swiss gentleman who makes cheese in the Himalayas – how did you dig him out? What a unique story. I hope to go meet him some day soon, he seems like such a sweet bloke. Incidentally Mangal Dalal writes well.

Chris Fernandes, Mumbai

Feedback

I find your Feedback page is very readable. But I don’t like the positioning. You must consider moving it forward and also increasing it two pages. It gets all lost where it is currently appears.

Krishna Das, Ratlam