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Restaurant Week India 2026: Participating Kolkata restaurants, menus and prices. @calenkari gets you all the details thehindu.com/life-and-style/…
Restaurant Week India 2026: Participating Kolkata restaurants, menus and prices

Restaurant Week India 2026: Participating Kolkata restaurants, menus and prices

After its April pilot, Restaurant Week India returns with over 100 restaurants across 15-plus cities. In Kolkata, seven establishments are serving curated three-course menus, with organisers hoping...

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How five women from a Palakkad bakery found YouTube stardom. Anasuya Menon reports on the VillageFoodKerala channel thehindu.com/food/features/h…
How five women from a Palakkad bakery found YouTube stardom

How five women from a Palakkad bakery found YouTube stardom

Five Palakkad bakery workers become YouTube stars through VillageFoodKerala, sharing traditional recipes and village charm with global audiences.

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A short history of the banana. The herb that looks like a tree and other tales of the world’s most famous ‘fruit’ by Meghaa Gupta thehindu.com/children/a-shor…
A short history of the banana

A short history of the banana

A short history of the banana

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Humble bites to haute cuisine! These foods used to be cheap, but now they’re chic. Divya Vinayak Patilkulkarni writes thehindu.com/children/humble…
Humble bites to haute cuisine

Humble bites to haute cuisine

From humble, affordable foods like lobster and ramen to luxury-status delicacies, explore how demand and scarcity shifted their prices.

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Chennai’s speciality coffee kiosks reshape the city’s café culture. @sangitarajan24 explores the trend thehindu.com/life-and-style/…
Chennai’s speciality coffee kiosks reshape the city’s café culture

Chennai’s speciality coffee kiosks reshape the city’s café culture

Chennai’s micro, affordable speciality coffee kiosks reform the city’s cafe culture with grab-and-go brews and intimate barista chats.

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How brown mussels sustain livelihoods along Thiruvananthapuram’s coast. @NainuOommen reports thehindu.com/society/how-bro…
How brown mussels sustain livelihoods along Thiruvananthapuram’s coast

How brown mussels sustain livelihoods along Thiruvananthapuram’s coast

Mussels fuel livelihoods along Keralam’s coast, driving auction economies, local cuisine, and emerging open-sea farming amid rising demand.

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Deepavali food guide: mithai, regional treats and edible firecrackers that ship pan-India. @Nidhi_Adlakha curates the list thehindu.com/food/features/d…
Deepavali Food Guide 2026: Mithai, Sweets & Hampers

Deepavali Food Guide 2026: Mithai, Sweets & Hampers

Explore Deepavali 2026 gifts from homegrown brands, from collectible mithai tins and regional ladoos to edible firecrackers, artisanal sweets and festive hampers

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How Indian festivals shape seasonal eating habits. @prabalikam explores how traditional festival foods reflect the changing seasons and regional food cultures thehindu.com/food/features/i…
Indian festivals and seasonal diets

Indian festivals and seasonal diets

Explores how Indian festivals align with seasonal eating across regions, revealing harvest-inspired menus, traditional rituals, and evolving food calendars.

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In Kashmir’s traditional rice, clues to a journey from East Asia. @AzmatHirra writes thehindu.com/sci-tech/scienc…
In Kashmir’s traditional rice, clues to a journey from East Asia

In Kashmir’s traditional rice, clues to a journey from East Asia

Kashmir’s traditional varieties carry cold-tolerance and other locally adapted genes that modern varieties have partly lost, making them potentially valuable as climate change increases stress on...

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One nation, one papad: The pursuit of food uniformity threatens India’s peace and progress. ✍️@vargheseKgeorge thehindu.com/news/national/o…
One nation, one papad: The pursuit of food uniformity threatens India’s peace and progress

One nation, one papad: The pursuit of food uniformity threatens India’s peace and progress

Debate over FSSAI papad moisture limits reveals India’s tension between national uniformity and regional culinary diversity.

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Meet the duo giving unsold food a second life across Bengaluru and Hyderabad. @Nidhi_Adlakha reports thehindu.com/food/features/m…
Replate: Bengaluru App Turning Unsold Food into Affordable Meals

Replate: Bengaluru App Turning Unsold Food into Affordable Meals

Bengaluru-based Replate connects customers with restaurants and bakeries selling unsold food in surprise bags, helping reduce food waste and recover costs.

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Sweet shops gear up for Deepavali buyers thehindu.com/news/cities/Tir…
Sweet shops gear up for Deepavali buyers

Sweet shops gear up for Deepavali buyers

Tiruchi sweet shops prep for Deepavali with new branded sweets, affordable hampers, and rising demand for exotic, healthier, and gift-packaged treats.

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Dasara’s unsung heroes to be honoured with special lunch in Mysuru thehindu.com/news/national/k…
Special lunch in Mysuru for Dasara’s unsung heroes

Special lunch in Mysuru for Dasara’s unsung heroes

Around 2,000 pourakarmikas who helped keep Mysuru clean during Dasara-2026 will be treated to a special lunch at Rajendra Kalamandira by Urban Development and Mysuru District Minister Yathindra...

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Remembering Chef Damu: A life dedicated to Tamil Nadu’s culinary heritage. @AkilaKannadasan's tribute to the chef thehindu.com/society/remembe…
Remembering Chef Damu: A life dedicated to Tamil Nadu’s culinary heritage

Remembering Chef Damu: A life dedicated to Tamil Nadu’s culinary heritage

Remembering celebrity chef K Damodaran who passed away recently

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This Halloween, Goa’s Bloody Dangerous serves up sex, scares and sophisticated cocktails. Deepali Dhingra visits the new bar thehindu.com/food/dining/thi…

This Halloween, Goa’s Bloody Dangerous serves up sex, scares and sophisticated cocktails

At Bloody Dangerous in Assagao, artist Siddharth Kerkar turns phobias, death, and public embarrassment into a fun outing

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Why is the price of rice rising across the country? | Explained thehindu.com/news/national/w…
Why is the price of rice rising across the country? | Explained

Why is the price of rice rising across the country? | Explained

Why rice prices are surging in India due to below-normal monsoon, reduced rice area, and shifts to less-water-intensive crops.

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World Pasta Day: In Mumbai, dedicated pasta restaurants are booming. ✍️Barry Rodgers thehindu.com/food/dining/wor…
World Pasta Day: In Mumbai, dedicated pasta restaurants are booming

World Pasta Day: In Mumbai, dedicated pasta restaurants are booming

Mumbai’s pasta specialists are changing how the city thinks about handmade pasta, Italian food and dining out

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Tamil Nadu CM Vijay condoles death of Chef Damu thehindu.com/news/national/t…
Tamil Nadu CM Vijay condoles death of Chef Damu

Tamil Nadu CM Vijay condoles death of Chef Damu

Tamil Nadu CM Vijay mourns death of Chef Damu, Padma Shri recipient and Guinness record-holder, highlighting his charm on television and culinary impact.

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Chef Damu passes away at 72 thehindu.com/news/national/t…
Chef Damu passes away at 72

Chef Damu passes away at 72

India’s renowned Chef K. Damodaran aka Chef Damu from Tamil Nadu, a Padma Shri winner and Guinness record holder, dies at 72.

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Taste Kolkata’s Tangra-style Chinese food at Chao in Kochi. @schilped_nair writes thehindu.com/food/dining/tan…
Taste Kolkata’s Tangra-style Chinese food at Chao in Kochi

Taste Kolkata’s Tangra-style Chinese food at Chao in Kochi

Experience Tangra-style Kolkata Chinese at Chao in Kochi, blending regional twists, bold spices, and Kolkata-influenced flavours

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