We'll concede that whoever first thought of deep-frying and seasoning thin slices of potato was a genius. But what happened after that? For decades, potatoes ruled the chip world, facing regional challenges only from bananas and tapioca. Diversity is finally appearing on our snackfood shelves as other fruits and veggies—the karela, jackfruit, beetroot—start to chip in.
Pasteurisation was the first revolution in dairy storage. Ultra-high temperature (uht) processing is the new one, especially in India, where refrigeration is unreliable and milk goes bad in less time than it takes to say piyo glassful. But now that uht milk can sit contentedly in its box for months, there's no more crying over spoilt milk.
Think about it as poor old bhutta's successful foreign-returned cousin. American sweet corn, steamed, buttered and handed over with a spoon by a man in a hat. Let's not forget the cosmopolitan choice of masalas—Chinese? Mexican? However you prefer to take your corn-in-a-cup, and wherever you take it, in the mall or the mandi, it's mouth-watering.
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