Workers spread 'papad', a disc-shaped food made from seasoned dough, to sun-dry, in Agartala.

A participant shows the cooked meal during the solar energy conservation programme 'Maha Suryakumbh', in Bhopal.

Wherever you go A Ghaziabad housewife checks YouTube for a recipe

Pooja Dhingra

Brekkie at the Tiritiri Lodge, New Zealand: poached eggs with avocado, oven-fresh bread, crumbly cakes… (“One of the best breakfasts I have ever eaten,” says Ritu

Ritu in the Ubud market in Bali with Janet DeNeefe, a dear friend and authority on Balinese food

Ritu Dalmia

Water can be heated up to more than 100°C in a pressure cooker. The method was developed in 1806 to enable Napoleon’s army to sterilise food and make it last longer.

Braising is physically the most complex form of cooking. The food receives heat from three sources: the hot steam in the pot, the simmering water on the bottom of the pot an...

Cooking the mild way: while steaming, tiny water droplets form an insulating film on the food being cooked, which retains the heat of the steam. The insides of the vegetable...

The magic of embers Grilling is the oldest method of preparing food: for hundreds of thousands of years humans have been using charcoal heated up to 1,400°C to warm meat by...

Dishy TV Jaya TV’s Masterchef-style Samayal Champion is all the rage in TN