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Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarRunning a restaurant means making a fresh start every day: Jasleen Marwah, Folk restaurant.Jasleen Marwah is a media professional turned home chef who launched her Kashmiri food offering, Namak, during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Namak exists primarily as a catering offer now. Something new has happened in Jasleen's life. She is now the co-owner cum chef of a restaurant called Folk in Mumbai's art district of Kalaghoda. Folk offers pan Indian food and not just Kashmiri food. In her second appearance in Foodocracy For Her, Jasleen speaks to us about her new endeavour.
The award-winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest-running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and...2024-04-2654 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe homechef who used lessons on marketing from her corporate job to grow her business: Ushri GurujiUshri Guruji's love for cooking started at the age of 10. She lived in Kolkata then. Her inspiration was chef Sanjeev Kapoor's show Khana Khazana. She moved to Mumbai, married into a Bohri family, and has been in the corporate world for 17 years.
Her love for feeding people inspired her to start her home chef business, Ushri HomeChef, 4 years back during the Covid 19 lockdown. She offers both Bengali and Bohri food. She did not slow down after the lockdown ended. She treats her home chef business with utmost seriousness and juggles it with her day job in the corporate sector...2024-04-1145 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarMakhanas are not lotus seeds: Darbhanga's Makhana Girl Pratibha Bondia Kheria on Foodocracy For herMakhanas are trending in the Indian dietary world these days but do you know what they are? How they are grown? How they are processed? If not, then this podcast episode featuring Pratibha Bondia Kheria of Pearl Mithila Makhana...and organic and ethically driven enterprise...will give you the answers that you are looking for. Along with the inspiring story of this socially conscious entrepreneur.
The award winning #podcast #FoodocracyForHer by Kalyan Karmakar is India's longest running podcast featuring women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage business. Please share the episode. Please click on like as it he...2022-12-101h 03
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarBio-tech to Banana chips. Two sisters from Kerala who are empowering home based food entrepreneurs through techReshma and Annu are two sisters who grew up in a small town near Kochi in Kerala. Reshma went to Mumbai for her studies and to work. Annu went to Chennai to study and now works out of Bangalore. The two sisters are part of India's tech boom, having worked in the intersection of bio-tech and radiology and in AI. The lockdown and going back home and seeing the power of the cooking of their amma and amma chechi (maternal aunt) and their ambitions (the two matrons reached the semifinals of a cooking competition aired on TV), they felt t...2022-11-2657 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarMost chefs don't give eggs the importance they deserve: Annie Bafna of The Nutcracker Mumbai on Foodocracy For HerAnnie Bafna is a CA as many of her fellow Parsis are. What makes her rare in the community is that she is a vegetarian! She used to eat eggs once but has given that up apart from when she needs to do tastings at The Nutcracker Mumbai which has an egg-etarian menu. Like any good Parsi, Annie reveres eggs. This ensures that the scrambled eggs coming out of her kitchen are consistently creamy and dreamy. Annie is not a chef. She worked for 7 years in the finance industry and then 7 years in the design industry before she followed...2022-11-061h 07
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarBe it on stage singing, or cooking out of a Cloud Kitchen. This home chef from Kolkata has done it all. Nandini Deb on Foodocracy For HerNandini Deb grew up in Sovabazar, Kolkata, in a family obsessed with food. And music. Sounds like the average Bengali family? Well her family ran a restaurant and her grandmother was the first thumri singer in Kolkata. Nandini left Kolkata for Mumbai as she wanted to be a background singer. She has done many stage gigs across the country and the world and has given her voice for a Hindi film. She started a catering business from home with her partner Nirban Goswami during the pandemic. As time went by and things opened up, she realised that she enjoys...2022-10-281h 05
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarMumbai's taco evangelist Kartikeya Ratan on Foodocracy For HerMy interview with chef Kartikeya Ratan is by far the longest Foodocracy For Her podcast interview that I have done till date. When you listen to the story of a child from a doctor's family who wanted to be a chef and subsequently went to India's top hospitality school, worked in one of the top hotel kitchens in India and then one of the most inventive ones, went abroad and worked in top rated restaurants in the US and Europe where she got exposure to the diverse worlds of elevated dining, sustainability and organic produce, came back to India...2022-10-051h 54
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarFrom ready to wear fashion to ready to cook gravies. Home chef Misbah Mitha aces it all. #foodocracyforherMisbah Mitha has run a successful business as a fashion designer for 33 years. The pandemic was the first time where she sat with no work. A friend and neighbour, who was well aware of her cooking skills, bumped into her during his walk one evening. He suggested that she become a home chef as that was the need of the hour. Her husband, a retired banker, was sceptical at first. That made Misbah even more determined! She discussed the idea with her school friends. All fans of her cooking. One suggested brand names for her. Another chose the final...2022-09-2650 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe former beauty industry marketer who is championing to cause of sustainable eating through jackfruits. Keertida Phadke on #foodocracyforherKeertida Phadke is a Pune girl who spent the formative years of her life in Tokyo before she moved to Pune with her parents. She went to Paris to study business management, joined L'Oreal and came back to India with them. This time to Mumbai. Her love for food made her quit and move to NYC to study to be a chef at the Natural Gourmet Institute. To know how from there she became the co-founder of Eat With Better, an enterprise that promotes sustainable eating by getting plucked and pre- cleaned unripe jackfruit to you, do catch the...2022-08-081h 17
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarRemembering Pia: The first star of the #foodocracyforher Hall of LegendsThe world of Indian food became poorer on the 21st of July 2022 with the passing away of Pia Promina Dasgupta Barve in Mumbai.
There was a spontaneous outpouring of grief from the many lives she had touched. To know about the multifaceted life she led, do read this article by food researcher Pritha Sen...https://tinyurl.com/4eeevr7t
Many call Pia the pioneer home chef. She was baking from a time when most of us were not even born. She was behind the setting up of the iconic Kewpie restaurant in Kolkata. She moved to...2022-07-261h 22
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarNot all our Gujarati is sweet. Mumbai's home chef Shital Kakad wants to bust myths around Gujarati food on #foodocracyforherMumbai born Shital Kakad of Shital's Food Cottage loved food ever since she was a child. This soon translated into a love for feeding. Her initial enthusiasm was around what one could call 'world cuisine'...pizza, pasta, cakes... turning any dish that her husband liked during their travels into a vegetarian one once back home, was her super power. She then came across the world of food bloggers and chefs, initially through the FBAI, and realised the need to understand, document and share the marvels of ones native cuisine. She began cooking and feeding people dishes from her family's Surti...2022-07-2552 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarLife, like chocolate, is bitter sweet. What matters is what makes you happy: Sanjana Pate of La Folie on #foodocracyforherHer home town of Mumbai was like a new city for her when chef Sanjana Patel moved back to India from France and opened a patisserie here. This was 9 years back when the city had just begun to wake up to modern patisserie trends. She opened La Folie in Fort from where she did largely chocolate based confectionery. It was with her outlet in Bandra, La Folie Lab, that she began introducing the city to the wonders of complex French pastries and then the world of sourdough breads before the small outlet became a very popular ingredient focussed cafe...2022-07-161h 09
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarWe want to take the story of Maharashtra's food culture to the world: Devika Kotibhaskar Khadapkar of Kokan Bazaron #foodocracyforher#foodocracyforher is back after a break and we have got a most wonderful episode for you. Y
You will get to hear Devika Kotihaskar Khadapkar talk about Kokan Bazar which turned 14 on 9th July 2022. Kokan Bazar was founded by her mother in law, Nayan Khadapkar, who is an alumni of TISS and has been involved in social work through her career. Her aim was to generate sustainable employment for the women in the Konkan region of Maharashtra through her enterprise.
Devika is a B School graduate who left her successful corporate career to join Kokan B...2022-07-0959 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe noodle maker's granddaughter who is taking the family legacy ahead through her food: Kolkata's chef Sachiko Seth on #foodocracyforherChef Sachiko Seth, who is of Tibetan origin, was born in Kalimpong in the hills of Bengal. Her mother Doma Wang (pronounced Wong) had started a home chef enterprise in Kolkata back then. Making momos at home and selling them across Salt Lake. Sachiko, whose pet name is Puchu, remembers waking up as a 4 year old to the sight of her mum and her team making momos, thukpa and chowmein in their house for orders. It was her breakfast too. When a bit older, she was given the responsibility of helping deliver the momos and later learnt how to...2022-05-181h 06
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarI want to make India proud by celebrating our ingredients: Chef Niyati Rao, Ekaa, MumbaiThere was once a little girl in Mumbai who would go to school every day and fret over the three R's ... reading, writing and 'rithmetic. She was dyslexic and these shibboleths of the conventional education system just didn't talk to her. She would come home feeling frustrated, sit in the kitchen and see her mother (a Gujarati) and paternal grand-mom (an Andhra'ite) cook for the family. This was her happy place. She would see the joy that the food cooked by the two ladies would give to all at her home and then had her eureka moment, 'cooking can...2022-05-091h 17
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarFrom wanting to make films to running her own restaurants. Kolkata's Chef Urvika Kanoi on #foodocracyforherOnce upon a time, there was a Marwari girl from Kolkata who grew up in a family with no food restrictions. She went to Singapore to study film making after her school finals. Cooked for her friends there. Realised that she enjoyed cooking more than she enjoyed making films. Still in her teens, she went off on a journey of self discovery by attending a cooking course. She attained enlightenment there and went to Le Cordon Bleau, London, to study. She returned to Calcutta. Interned in top hotel kitchens. Realised that everyone treated her as her papa's daughter and...2022-05-011h 14
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe home baker from Allahabad who established a brownie empire in Mumbai: Prachi Agarwal Goel of Brownie Cottage in #foodocracyforherPrachi Agarwal Goel is the head chef and co-founder of Brownie Cottage, established in 2005. In the first episode of the podcast she spoke about how her summer holiday trips to Mumbai from Allahabad as a child got her interested in the world of baking. Of how she did a bakery course at the Sophia Polytechnic after her graduation at Allahabad as the love of her life and her future life partner had (and still has) 'a massive sweet tooth.' In the second and concluding part of the podcast, chef Prachi talks about starting a home baking enterprise after...2022-04-2651 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarHow interning at the Oberoi Mumbai led to the birth of Mumbai's Brownie Queen. Prachi Agarwal Goel of Brownie Cottage on #FoodocracyForherPrachi Agarwal Goel is the head chef and co-founder of Brownie Cottage, established in 2005. Setting up a food business was never the life plan of this academic topper from Allahabad who grew up in a conservative Marwari joint family. It was her love for baking and her future husband and co-founder of Brownie Cottage, Raghav Goel's, massive sweet tooth which led her to do a course on baking at Mumbai's Sophia Polytechnic. From there she was selected to do a specialised training programme at the Oberoi, Mumbai. At the end of her three month internship, Prachi was convinced that...2022-04-2351 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarBachi Karkaria on the Curries and Caviar that Captured the Dreams of Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair"We didn't talk about food. I read up on my notes on the food bits for you,' exclaimed the indomitable Bachi Karkaria at the end of my interview of her on her latest book, Capture The Dream. Her biography of the late Captain C.P. Krishnan Nair, the founder of the Leela Group. Truth be told, this very readable book left me with so much food for thought that I forgot to ask Bachi about the role the Captain's mother's prawn pickle and his wife Leela's prawn curries played in shaping his rather eventful life. So WHAT did...2022-03-0251 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe Tails of My Life Ep 4: Billi Bhaag Jayega. The runaway bride.The story of a cat called Maharani. An outside cat. Who became an inside outside cat. And now is an inside cat named Baby Loaf, lying beside me on the bed while I type this. Things might change the moment the bell rings though as he would make a dash to run out of our apartment which has been his too for more than 2 years now. I do hope you liked this episode and do share it. #cat #catperson #catlover #radiofinelychopped #thekittykarmakars #thetailsofmylife #catpodcast #mumbaicat #adoptdontshop2022-03-0121 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe Tails Of My Life 3: It takes a village. The story of Mau. The cat formerly known as Baby Marsh.The story of a cat named Mau and of how he brought a bunch of us together through his search for his forever home. While I am yet to meet him in person, Mao is special as he is the first kitten whom I helped find a house for. After opening our own home to two. All the people mentioned in the podcasts have themselves adopted community cats and feed and look after many more. #TheTailsOfMyLife is my podcast on cats and I hope you like it and share it and do rate the channel on whichever podcast app you...2022-02-2717 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe Tails of My Life Ep 2: There’s a Maharani in the buildingIn this episode on my podcast on the cats in my life, which will hopefully someday become a book, I tell you the story of a cat whom I named Maharani who met me in our building lobby and made me fall in love with cats. I narrated the episode while our cats Baby Loaf and little Nimki sat by me on the bed before they went off to sleep. Was it really so boring? What happened to Maharani? Tune in the listen and do subscribe to the channel and leave a comment and a review too. #cats #catperson #catpodcast...2022-02-2318 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe Tails Of My Life Ep 1: The Crazy Cat DadHi, my name is Kalyan Karmakar. I am a food writer based in Mumbai. This is the first episode of my new podcast, ‘The tails of my life.’ A title given by my wife for a book she thinks I should write. No, it’s not about food. It’s about the cats in my life. Someone who disliked cats till November 2019 and whose word now centres around them. Do tune in as I stories from our lives together and tell you how our lives have become magical since then. Do show this some love, share with fellow cat and pet love...2022-02-2211 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarMy kingdom for an egg; The K&K Dig Food Podcast.Pre recording.
K: What should we talk of today?
K: Let's talk about eggs. I had some lovely eggs for breakfast.
K: So did I. You do realise that by this logic we will do a podcast on eggs every week?!
K: What a lovely idea!
In this episode Kurush and Kalyan speak about poached eggs and French toasts and of how Bengalis revolutionaries have 'redefined them both,' while the Parsis remained loyal to Her Majesty. Of how one must take stories told by grandmoms about the stretchability of a single egg with a pinch of salt. They talk...2022-02-0358 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarAre you sleeping with the enemy: Breast cancer survivor Shormista Mukherjee on #foodocracyforher#foodocracyforher is where I speak to women doing amazing work in the world of food. My next guest, Shormistha Mukherjee, is not in the food business. Yet. Not directly at least. Though as the co-owner of the digital agency Flying Cursor, this former legacy advertising professional has worked with clients in the food space and with creators too. She is an enthusiastic patron of home chefs and was part of the jury of the Home Cheffies 2021, India's first Home Chef Power Brand Awards. She is a former colleague of my wife and one of the earliest friends that I...2022-02-021h 05
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe former fashion marketer who is now helping you gift people delicious, yet healthy treats: Megha Phull on #foodocracyforherMegha Phull was born in Bhillai, grew up in Delhi and lived in various cities ranging from Glasgow to Mumbai before moving to Singapore last year. She worked in the fashion industry after completing her higher studies in the field. She took a break when her son was born 12 years back, conscious of the fact that she would like to resume her career once her son was a bit older. Resume she did, but not in fashion, it was food this time! Always a foodie, Megha had got a perspective of clean and conscious eating thanks to her dietician...2022-01-2858 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe neuro biologist who is on a mission to make chefs out of the differently abled. #FoodocracyForherFind purpose and work will follow, they say. Dr Tatyana Dias, whom I interviewed for the latest episode of the #foodocracyforher podcast, is a great example of this. Her sister, Veruschka, was born when Tatyana was 4. 4 years later the doctors diagnosed Veruschka as being autistic. From then on the lives of young Tatyana and her parents revolved around Veruschka's well being. Tatyana felt very protective towards her sister. When in high school she decided that she wanted to study and know more about how the brain works so that she could make a difference to the lives of those w...2022-01-251h 19
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe Coimbatore born Marwari home chef who is introducing Mumbaikars to home cooked south Indian food: FoodocracyForherI am thrilled to present Trishla Lunawat of Meal On Leaf in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer. Trishla is a Marwari who was born in Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. She was exposed to the food of different states of south India while growing up in Coimbatore, with her father turning out to be her cooking guru. Trishla then moved to Mumbai, where she lives with her husband and son. During the first Covid 19 pandemic lockdown of 2020, she got the idea of offering home styled south Indian food in Mumbai. Somehing that she felt was lacking here. She visited her i...2022-01-191h 02
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarK&K Dig Food: Battling over the B WordIn this episode of their podcast, Kurush and Kalyan talk about the concept of barter and its relevance when it comes to social media marketing, they skirt away from the four letter B word in the world of Indian food which can be contentious on social media and move on to biryani, a topic that often leads to serious debates between the two of them. Each takes a swipe at the biryani from the other's home base, Kalyan on Mumbai's and Kurush on Kolkata's. They then use their childhood biryani experiences to reconstruct the social fabric of the Bombay...2022-01-181h 07
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarSaheb, biwi aur cutlet: K&K Dig Food Ep 2In this episode of their podcast, Kurush and Kalyan reminisce about the street food culture of Bombay and Calcutta (as the cities were then known) of their childhood and youth. From Kurush you will hear memories of the samosa-wala outside St Xavier's School, his first vada pav (which he remembers far more vividly than his first crush) and the secret of what went into kebabs outside Novelty Cinema. Kalyan talks about how it was the parar dokaner egg rolls which Calcutta ran on (not mutton kathi rolls), the chops and cutlets that the rolls shops offered and movie theatres...2022-01-1159 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan Karmakar#FoodocracyForHer: Tanvi Shah's Millennial Kitchen is all about recipes of sustainability & inclusivityI am thrilled to drop the first #foodocracyforher episode of 2022 which features Tanvi Shah from Mumbai. She is an economics student who then studied MIS. She was always interested in cooking, but did not get a chance to do so till she went abroad to study. She came back, got married, ran a handicrafts enterprise. Life was on cruise mode till one day a question from her then 9 year old son, after visiting the langar at Amritsar, on how he could help those who are in the weaker sections of the society led to Tanvi guiding her son Vir...2022-01-081h 03
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarDropping the banana leaf: K&K Dig Food EP 1I sacrificed my afternoon nap to drop the historic pilot episode of the podcast that will change your life forever: 'K&K Dig Food,' and you have not heard it yet. Seriously? I mean, come on.... please listen to it. Pretty please. We need motivation to make the next episode! (KK) In this episode, Dr Kurush Dalal and (son of a doctor) Kalyan Karmakar give you a peek into their bromance as they introduce each other to you at the start. Kurush then defends the drink called raspberry, an acquired taste which is hard to acquire, which Parsis s...2022-01-0655 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe investment banker turned chef who fought her way out of dark space to find her happy space: Chef Hemal on #foodocracyfprherI am proud to present Investment banker turned independent chef entrepreneur, chef Hemal Shah in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer. Hemal is a Mumbai girl, whose father is an oncologist and mother a gynaecologist. It was a given that she would be a doctor and she passed her pre-med and got into one of Mumbai's top medical colleges. She then realised that she did not want to lead the sort of life her mom led ('on call at all times') and decided to study economics instead ('that was all that was available by then to me'). Hemal then went t...2021-12-141h 04
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarWhy Deeba Rajpal urges you to think out of the box in her book on baking with chocolate: #foodocracyforher #eatingbooksI am proud to present food blogger turned author, Deeba Rajpal in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer AND of my new podcast series #EatingBooks.
Deeba was interested in baking from the time she was in school and wryly says that she belongs to an era where dalda featured in baking recipes. Fast forward to a few years later when she was married and her husband gifted her a digital camera. Deeba, like me, belongs to an era where cameras worked on 36 exposure rolls where each shot was precious. Noone would photograph food then. Imagine! The digital camera...2021-11-2047 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe home chef from Malvan who came to Mumbai & opened its most well regarded Malvani restaurant: Surekha Walke on #foodocracyforherI am proud to present home chef turned restaurant owner Surekha Walke, of Chaitanya Restaurant and Mother of Malvan, in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer.
Surekha ji was born in Malvan in coastal Maharashtra. While growing up she was interested in everything but cooking...sports, theatre, politics (in college)..even though she came from a family that owned a Malvani bakery and sweets shop. She married Nitin ji who loves food. Surekha ji learnt how to cook from her mother in law and won her husband's heart with her cooking. He suggested that they open an eatery...2021-11-1648 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe interior designer turned home chef who wants you to be conscious of what goes into your body: Sonali Naik on #foodocracyforherI am proud to present home chef Sonali Naik of Divine Flavour in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer.
Sonali is a Mumbai based interior designer who loves and lives to eat. A conscious eating and exercise based regime helped her lose 40 kilos a couple of years back. "I wanted to feel good and eat clean," she says. Then came the covid pandemic. Her interior design work dried up. She was sitting at home with no access to even her 'happy place,' the gym! She felt overwhelmed. Put on a bit of weight. Then the 'spirit of...2021-11-0950 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe chef who chose the tandoor over test-tubes to tell the story of Indian food. Amninder Sandhu on #FoodocracyForHerI am proud to present Chef Amninder Sandhu in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer. Amninder Sandhu was a science student and a very good one at that. Her father's dream of her becoming a doctor lying at the back of her mind. One day, while playing around with test tubes in the lab, epiphany struck her. It is cooking that she had always loved. What was she doing in a science class?! She joined IHM Aurangabad and began the journey towards living life the way she wanted it to be. She worked in the Taj Hotel chain, went independent and r...2021-11-0155 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe food social media influencer who is helping small business owners build their brands. Vernika Awal on #foodocracyforherI am proud to present Vernika Awal in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer.
Vernika Awal is a Punjabi who has lived in different parts of India while growing up thanks to her father's 'transferrable job', but never in Punjab. She did her postgraduate studies in media, worked in legacy media (Times of India), then with the site Exchange4Media, before she decided to go independent as a writer. Initially through her blog, Delectable Reveries, and then her Instagram account under the same name.
On the young shoulders of Vernika rests a very mature head and...2021-10-1956 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarWant to support farmers? Pay them the just price. Sreedevi Lakshmi Kutty on #FoodocracyForHerI am proud to present Sreedevi Lakshmikutty AKA Devi in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer.
Devi grew up in in Trivandram and then moved to Mumbai where she and her husband, Ramesh, worked in LIC. They then went to Kentucky where Sridevi decided to do a mid careers masters in Sociology. That is when she awakened to the challenges that the agrarian sector faces. An understanding which got deepened when the couple went to Hague where she got to see the importance given to organic produce and sustainable farming. She was in Mumbai in between where she...2021-10-1255 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarDiscover the story of Assamese food with Sanjukta Das on #FoodocracyForHerI am proud to present Sanjukta Dutta nee Das in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer. Sanjukta Das is a passionate narrater of the story of Assamese food. She grew up around the tea gardens of Dibrugarh in Assam and then went to Ahmedabad for further studies and later to Mumbai. She and her husband decided to return to Assam after spending a short while in Mumbai as the pace of India's Maximum City got to too much for them. Ironically, Sanjukta was more at home at Ahmedabad and Mumbai than Guwahati where they moved to as this was the fir...2021-10-0451 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe former journalist who is working hard to bring back the golden age of Bengali Cuisine: Pritha Sen on #foodocracyforherI am proud to present Pritha Sen in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer.
Look up any article on the food of Bengal and its history in recent times and chances are that you will find a quote from Pritha Sen in it. She has been called a food historian and anthropologist, though she likes to call herself a food researcher. Her story did not start with food though. She was a teacher at the start of her career. Then a journalist with marque publications such as Sunday, Business Today, Asian Age and Outlook, where she got to wo...2021-09-271h 02
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe MBA turned home chef who is bringing Kolhapuri food to Mumbai. Reshma Mane on #FoodocracyForHerI am proud to present Reshma Mane, the Mumbai based home chef behind 'Every Aroma', in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer. Reshma is a Mumbai girl with roots in Kolhapur. She did her MBA after she finished her graduation, the way her parents wanted her to, before following her passion for food. Reshma is a big believer in learning and upskilling herself and did the certification courses on cookery and baking at IHM, Mumbai, to strengthen her culinary skills before she launched Every Aroma Caterers from her home kitchen in 2010. The venture took many shapes, from making cupcakes on or...2021-09-2058 min
Multipurpose With Lakshit.Kalyan Karmakar: On How Food Brings Us TogetherOn This Episode I Sat Down With Kalyan, Kalyan Karmakar started his career in market research in 1997. He began food blogging as a hobby in 2007 and then switched tracks in 2013 to become an independent food writer. He is now considered to be one of India’s leading food bloggers. He is a popular food columnist and a published author too. He runs Finely Chopped Consulting, a specialised consumer and market insights offering in the food space that brings together his two worlds of being consumer market researcher and a food writer. He started writing his blog www.FinelyChopped.net in...2021-09-2023 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarMeet Kolkata's Mrs Magpie Sohini Basu on #FoodocracyForHerI am proud to present Sohini Basu @lifeoutsidemrsmagpie who runs Mrs Magpie @mrsmagpiecafe , Kolkata, in this episode of #FoodocracyForHer.
Sohini Basu grew up in Kolkata, went to the UK to study fashion and spent the initial years of her career in Kolkata working for Sabyasachi, the famous designer. She then went to Paris to study the business side of fashion.
She fell in love there...with the quaint patisseries of Gay Paree and then went to LCB London to know more about the world of all things sweet.
She returned to Kolkata and decided to...2021-09-1751 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarNooresha Kably tell you the Izumi, Bandra, story on #foodocracyforherI am proud to present Nooresha Kably, who is the chef owner of Izumi Bandra, in this episode of #FoodocracyForHer. Izumi Bandra has taken the Indian restaurant scene by storm within its few years of existence and who better than Nooresha Kably to tell its story. The story of how Nooresha, who earlier ran a sushi delivery outfit with a former chef from Zenzi (who is in a senior role with Izumi now), decided to go to Tokyo alone in her mid 40s to learn how to cook Japanese food. Again and again. Including once at Yokohama. Of how she and...2021-09-1653 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe food portal editor who quit her job to help you make better choices. Tanu Ganguly on the #FoodocracyForHer podcastI am proud to present Tanu Ganguly, Delhi based founder of Mishry Reviews, in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer.
In this chat you will get to hear Tanu Ganguly speak of her two decade long career in NDTV across its platforms such as NDTV Lifestyle and NDTV food (where she was my editor during the second half of my stint as a columnist with them) and how it helped her discover her passion for food. Of how being in the start up-like environment of one of post-liberalisation India's most pioneering media companies planted the entrepreneurial bug in her. Of how...2021-09-1556 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarFood blogger to diabetes food needs provider. The 13 year long journey of Bangalore's Monika Manchanda.I am proud to present Monika Manchanda, Bangalore based food writer & restaurant consultant and Chief Culinary Officer of LiveAltLife, in the latest episode of #FoodocracyForHer. In this chat you will get to hear about how Monika, a former IT professional, took up food blogging in 2008 and then became a home baker before the phrase was even coined. Of how she explored different avenues of blogging and social media till she had her eureka moment when she stepped into a commercial kitchen and discovered her calling as a restaurant/ cafe consultant. You will hear of the self-doubts that she faced du...2021-09-0955 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarKainaz Contractor's journey to introducing home-like Parsi food to Delhi captured on #foodocracyforherI am proud to present Kainaz Contractor, Delhi based chef, in this episode of #FoodocracyForHer. In this chat you will get to hear about how Kainaz Contractor studied advertising in Mumbai and then moved into the hotel industry as she wanted to work in food. She did not find what she wanted and became a part of the editorial team of the then newly launched BBC Good Food Magazine. Her next move took her to Delhi where she opened Rustom's Parsi Bhonu. "The aim was to expose Delhi to day to day Parsi food, shorn of cliches and caricatures," sa...2021-08-301h 06
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarMeet Mumbai's Parsi home baker who is fighting the lockdown with one cheesecake after anotherI am proud to present Nicole Mody, Mumbai based food entrepreneur and home baker, in this episode of #FoodocracyForHer. In this chat you will get to hear about how the pregnant cravings of a friend for lemon cheesecake made food event manager and author, Nicole, take to home baking during the lockdown and how this led her to conjure a lagan nu bhonu cheesecake for the Parsi new year. She also talks about her alternate life as a 'cat angel' and how satisfying that has been for her. #FoodocracyForHer is a chat show on #FinelyChoppedTV featuring interviews by Kalyan Kar...2021-08-1455 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarMy spine injury is the best thing that happened to me: Mumbai's Vegan Yogisattva Raveena Taurani on #foodocracyforherI am proud to present Raveena Taurani, plant based chef and founder CEO of I am a Yogisattva, in this episode of #FoodocracyForHer. Following her strong Hindi film industry pedigree, Raveena was trying to pursue a career as an actor when a spine injury in 2014 changed her life. It led her to yoga and then veganism and set her off in a path which led to her becoming a chef, an entrepreneur and a teacher. She now lives a life that she loves and yet would never have conceived of 7 years back. In this chat Raveena speaks candidly about th...2021-08-0956 min
Impact DutyImpact Duty, S2E3 - Kalyan Karmakar - Finely ChoppedKalyan Karmakar is a food and travel writer based in Mumbai. He is also a newbie cat dad and a rather besotted one at that.2021-06-2233 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarKolkata's 96 year old Anadi Cabin beyond Moghlai Paratha on #FoodocracyIndiaWe made kosha mangsho at home in Mumbai today with the mutton our friend Kurush Dalal sent us.
This sparked off memories of going to the 96 year old Anadi Cabin in Kolkata a few years back with our friends Kaniska & Manishita when we ended up discovering the fabulous kosha mangsho there, apart from having the Moghlai paratha for which this institution is famous.
In this podcast I tell you about kosha mangsho, about Moghlai parathas, about cabin restaurants and about Anadi. You can read about all
of this in my blog too. Do tune in and...2021-03-2630 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarMeet home chef Sneha Senapati who wants to introduce her native Odia cuisine to Mumbai.#FoodocracyForHer is my video podcast series on #FinelychoppedTV where I speak to women entrepreneurs from the world of food about their work. #FoodocracyKitchens is my video podcast series on #FinelychoppedTV where I showcase the wonders of the cuisines of India through the work of home chefs bases in Mumbai. This podcast episode is a confluence of both. My guest is Sneha Senapati, with whose story I had inaugurated the #FooodcracyKitchens series earlier. This time I spoke to her for #FoodocracyKitchens. Listen to it to know the story of this Cuttack born home chef, who grew up in Bhubaneswar, before s...2021-03-171h 02
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarMeet Shriya Shetty. The young Indian chef who 'loves" 20201Shriya Shetty is a young chef who does not believe in doing things the conventional way. Her love for food made her want to be a chef but she decided to intern with restaurants in Mumbai and later abroad to train herself rather than go to hospitality school. She refused to be boxed as a pastry chef, where most women chefs tend to be slotted, and developed her skills in the 'hot kitchen' too despite her love for pastry (cold kitchen). She then left Mumbai and settled in the comparatively sleepy town of Mangalore to research and know more...2021-03-011h 02
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarHow to build a food business in India the old fashioned way: Vasundhara JhunjhunwalaHow to build a food business the old fashioned way: Vasundhara Jhunjhunwala
#foodocracyforher is a series where I speak to women entrepreneurs in the food and beverage space in India to bring you their inspiring stories.
Today's episode is about a second generation run business, which is called @oldfashionedgourmet, and which was started by the late Shyamlata Sihare when she was 65 year old.
Her daughter, Vasundhara Jhunjhunwala, has taken on the mantle from her mother and runs the company today.
In this chat, Vasundhara tells us about her mother's remarkable story of being someone...2021-02-2458 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarTara Deshpande talks of her journey from the silver screen to becoming a kitchen queen. Pardon the cliches!I first knew of Tara Deshpande through the silver screen. As an actress in Hindi films and a VJ for MTV.
We connected a few years back when I was the editor at large for the India Food Network. She had emailed with a wonderful piece on the Byculla Souffle then, which it was my pleasure to publish.
That was the beginning of a beautiful friendship, for Tara is not only a cook book author, an avid food researcher and storyteller, someone who takes lip-smacking pictures of food; but she also is one of the...2021-01-271h 04Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarHow to deal with the imposter syndrome in the times of the covid pandemic.What is 'imposter syndrome?' Why is it coming into our lives these days? How can one deal with it? How have I tried to deal with it?
I am a freelance food writer based in Mumbai and have come to realise that so many of us are feeling self doubt these days... a result of a search for perfectionism and of being bombarded by social media messaging. I took a few measures to help me deal with this and thought I will share the same with you. Would love to hear from you on how you...2021-01-2725 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarLearn to listen to the customer and then win them over: Shatbhi BasuThe task as an interviewer when interviewing a legend such as Shathbi Basu, considered by many as the guru of Indian bartending, is a challenging one. Does one focus on the various achievements that she has had through her '40 years not out' professional career, ? On how she opened STIR, India's first bartending academy? On being awarded by the President of India and the Ministry of Woman and Child development for being the first Indian woman to do pioneering work in the field of bartending, thereby bringing respectability to the wizards behind the bar? The marquee brands that she h...2020-12-2759 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarA very Mumbai 2020 Christmas feast.Christmas 2020. The year of the Covid pandemic.The year we went into lockdown first and then had to stay socially distanced from our friends and families even when out of it. Socially distanced, but emotionally attached as Christmas reminded us. This special Christmas episode of #foodocracykitchens, my show where I talk about the food from across home kitchens of Mumbai, is about all the food that came our way to make our Christmas at home feel special and blessed this year. From our friends who are like family, mother and daughter duo, Erika and Gia Badami came a kuswar...2020-12-2514 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarAt the heart of a successful business lies a strong foundation. Chef Kainaz Messman of TheobromaIt was a privilege to interview chef Kainaz Messman of Theobroma Patisserie India for #foodocracyforher on #finelychoppedTV. A show where I speak to women entrepreneurs in the world of food and beverages, to learn from their inspiring stories and to share them with you. I could tell you about how Theobroma, a tiny cafe that she and her mum snd her sister opened at Mumbai's Colaba in 2004, ha grown to be a brand that is present in four cities today and has 50 plus outlets, the latest being in Hyderabad. I could tell you about her brownies, cookies or even...2020-12-2054 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarIf we survived this year, we can survive anything! Ratika & Richa Khetan AKA the Cauldron Sisters of JaipurI went to Jaipur towards the beginning of this year, a bit before the lockdown. My 5th visit to the Pink Study. A city which I fall in love with a bit more each time that I visit it. I made two new friends this time. Ratika and Richa Khetan, who are sisters and who run an enterprise called the Cauldron Sisters which they started in 2015. The business started with their creating exotic food gift hampers, followed by their running culinary workshops, getting into food deliveries & with time, restaurants & cafes approached them to work as consultants...at times to...2020-12-131h 01Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarBreakfast at CandiesDid an impromptu Instagram live broadcast on Candies, the neighbourhood cafe near our house in Mumbai, which is our home away from home. We have not been there since the pandemic, though we have often ordered in from them during this period. My talk on this Bandra favourite was full of memories for me and was part of the #foodocracyindia series. Here I talk of eateries across India where I have had meals seasoned with joy. Hope you like this and do share stories of any such places that you have in your life. Or of Candies.2020-12-1028 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarNothing is as important as finding a mentor in life: Kishi Arora on #foodocracyforherThe story of Delhi based chef and consultant, Kishi Arora, is a fascinating one. She went to the CIA (Culinary Institute of America) to study and then worked as a chef at top restaurants and in top luxury hotels in the US and Singapore. She came back home to Delhi to visit her parents in between and then decided to stay back to look after them. An unplanned move which led her to starting her life as an entrepreneur. Acting as a consultant for those in the food business and as a well regarded bespoke baker. Her most precious e...2020-12-0859 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarStart your mornings in Amritsar with a puri alu breakfast in Amritsar.With things slowly opening up across the country, I thought I will revive my #foodocracyindia series where I talk of my favourite eating experiences from across the country. Today is about Kanha Sweets, Amritsar, and the breakfasts I’ve had there. Please maintain all precautions, social distancing norms and wear masks, if stepping out and let’s not stop celebrating the stars of food even if we can’t visit them for the moment. #indianfood #amritsarfood #foodpodcast #thetravellingbelly2020-11-2612 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarIt's all about creating moments. Mumbai cased CA turned chef entrepreneur Amal FarooqueAmal Farooque is a Mumbai girl who grew up in Dubai surrounded by lovely food. This formed the inspiration for the life she chose subsequently. She wanted to be a chef but not before she followed her parents' advice to focus on her studies first and completed her CA studies. She is a self taught chef entrepreneur who started Sugar Overdose in Mumbai close to a decade back. Her 'nothing held back' dessert offering. Then she opened 'Sliders and Fries' her cloud kitchen food offering. A couple of years back, she started Sage and Olio which offers personalised meal ex...2020-11-2238 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe birth of Mumbai's iconic fish koliwada and the story of the lady who took its legacy aheadMumbai's Hazara Restaurant was established in 1947 by Hukamchand Singh Julka who had moved into Mumbai from Hazara, in what was West Punjab then, after the partition. His son, Harbans Singh Julka, grew the business after him. Urmila Julka, his wife and daughter in law of the founder, took on the business a decade back after her husband had just passed away. She was 65 then. Suffering from depression at the lost of her life partner, till she decided to get up and run the restaurant. "I saw it as a child that my husband had left behind for me to l...2020-11-1550 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarFood has literally saved my life in every possible way: Kashmiri Barkakati NathKashmiri Barkakati Nath was inspired by memories of her father's love for food to find our more about her native Assamese cuisine before she set off on a mission to be the ambassador for this yet to be discovered regional Indian cuisine. She curated and cooked for Assamese food festivals in top five star hotels across the country. The pandemic put paid to her plans and to her home-baking enterprise @KNorders (on Instagram) too. Kashmiri then did what she always does best and went into her home kitchen in Guwahati to cook her way out of a funk. In t...2020-11-0955 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarBimba Nayak’s Pathare Prabhu food: #MumbaiNativeKitchen#MumbaiNativeKitchen is a home chef food festival which I have curated un collaboration with the Soul Company. This festival will be held on Sunday 9th November 2020, in Mumbai, with food cooked by home chefs being sent to your homes. In this edition we have 4 home chefs representing 4 of the communities that represent he earliest settlers of Mumbai.
In this segment you get to hear from Bimba Nayak who is presenting food from the Pathare Prabhu community. She will tell you about who the Pathare Prabhus are, what is their food culture and what to expect in her menu.
Please go...2020-11-0514 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarFitness of mind, body & soul is the success mantra of Zeba Kohli, Mumbai’s Empress of Chocolate.The series #foodocracyforher is where I speak to women entrepreneurs in the food & beverage space to bring you their inspiring stories.
In this episode we get to hear from Mumbai based @ZebaKohli of @fantasiefinechocolates. Her vision and drive enabled her to take the family business, which she had to take over at the young age of 18, and make it what is arguably one of India's first artisinal chocolate brands.
Three decades later, this iconic lady continues to reinvent herself and cross many milestones, keeping the flag of the 75 year old family business in the process.
What is her secret? Let's...2020-11-0155 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarPassion, perseverance and patience pays if you want to be a chef: Chef Anurita GhoshalChef Anurita Ghoshal started her working career in the field of advertising and then set up what is possibly India's largest head hunting firm dedicated to advertising and marketing. She faced mid career ennui a decade back and went to Le Cordon Bleau, Paris, to do her diploma in baking.
She split the course over a number of years as she has a young daughter here and says that she (Anurita) called herself a 'chef' only when she finished the course.
She set up her pastry business under the name Eight By Anurita in Mumbai and it is our go...2020-10-2458 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarIf I did it, so can you. Rhea Mitra Dalal’s message to hone chefs in the times of Covid.Rhea Mitra Dalal is a fellow Bengali who, like me, is married to a Parsi. Her mother in law was the late Dr Katy Dalal. A renowned archeologist, author and one of the pioneering home chefs of Mumbai.
Rhea and her husband, Dr Kurush Dalal, a very well regard archeologist himself and passionate son of Mumbai and unabashed food lover, run Katy's Kitchen, the Parsi catering outfit started by Katy Dalal.
In this chat on #FoodocracyForHer, Rhea tells us about her journey in food and on taking Katy's legacy ahead AND on how she (Rhea) overcame the demons of despair...2020-10-1758 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarGrit defines me: Pooja Dhingra of Le 15 PatisserieLe 15 Patisserie's Pooja Dhingra is one of the biggest success stories of the Indian F&B industry in the last decade and represents the talented breed of young Indian chefs who have redefined how chefs are looked at in the country today.
She is everyone's role model but has had her shares of ups and downs.
Do join me while I chat to Pooja Dhingra on #FoodocracyForHer to understand what keeps her going, especially when things aren't very rosy.2020-10-091h 01Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarPeyaz Kachoris of Jaipur’s Mishtan BhandarTalking about a favourite snack of India’s Pink City as part of the #foodocracyindia series featuring popular eateries across India2020-10-0935 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarA tribute to the unknown sandwichwala of Mumbai’s Nariman PointMy #foodocracyindia podcast where the original transmission is through an Instagram live session. In this case, in memory of a sandwich stall that we used to frequent when I worked in an ad agency at Mumbai's Nariman Point
#indianfood #streetfood #Mumbaisandwich2020-09-2528 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarKochuris with the Maharani of KolkataPresenting Maharani, Kolkata, in the #foodocracyindia series By Kalyan Karmakar on #finelychoppedtv A place popular for its kachori/ kochuri, shingara/ samosa, cha/ tea and jilipi/ jalebi
Celebrating local food #whereIndiaeats
The episode was originally recorded as an Instgram live broadcast2020-09-2330 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan Karmakar100 and more reading why egg lovers should head to SuratFeaturing Bhai Bhai Omelette centre in #foodocracyindia my AV live food podcast series featuring popular eateries across India. In this case, a restaurant in Surat in Gujarat which has more than 100 egg dishes on its menu.2020-09-1227 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarA tribute to Mumbai’s oldest running restaurantPuncham Puriwala has been a part of Mumbai since the 1850s and this eatery in south Mumbai is still going strong. Run by the family that started it. Listen to its story in #foodocracyindia2020-09-1029 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarWhere to get good Keralite food in MumbaiHotel Deluxe on #foodocracyindia and a I peep into the phenomenon of Keralite run restaurants in Mumbao.2020-09-0839 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarLife in the toddy shops of KeralaPresenting the Chitoor Toddy Shop, Kochi, in the #foodocracyindia series. Celebrating local food where India eats.
By Kalyan Karmakar on #finelychoppedtv2020-07-0137 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe family heirloom puri bhaaji of SuratPresenting Hari Shankar Dhunjibhai Bhajiawala, Surat, in the foodocracyindia series celebrating local food joints across India
By Kalyan Karmakar on #finelychoppedtv2020-06-2642 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarMangalore’s new Taj Mahal Cafe offers a great welcome to this legendary South Indian food capitalNew Taj Mahal Cafe, Mangalore.
On the foodocracyindia series celebrating local food joints across India.
Presented by Kalyan Karmakar on #finelychoppedtv
In this podcast you will also get to hear about the impact that the Shetty community from Mangalore has had in Mumbai’s restaurant landscape apart from stories of this lovely 94 year old restaurant.2020-06-2534 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarFranks, Jamshedpur, #foodocracyindiaFranks, Jamshedpur,
#foodocracyindia series celebrating local food joints across India
Presented by #finelychoppedtv
Jamshedpur is an undiscovered gem when it comes to exploring food in India and Frank’s Chinese, estd in 1968, is a restaurant that everyone who has grown up in the city swears by.
I went there in November, 2019 and here’s my story.
#jamshedpur #pork #friedrice #familyrun #indochinesefood2020-06-0934 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarCelebrating Nasik’s love for mutton at Renuka Khanawal.Renuka Khanawal, Nasik
Part of the
#foodocracyindia podcast series celebrating local food joints across India Presented by #finelychoppedtv
Do listen to know more about khanawals, the small eateries, that Maharashtra thrives on, to get a glimpse of the food culture of Nasik and to learn about the mutton and misal on offer.
#indianfood #maharashtrianfood #thali #foodpodcast #mutton #supportsmallbusiness2020-06-0934 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarNoor Mohammadi Hotel, Mumbai, on #FoodocracyIndiaStories of Noor Mohammadi Hotel, a family run restaurant which offers Mughlai food in Mumbai’s Bhendi Bazar I talk of memories of earlier visits to the restaurant including during Ramzan and of some of my favourite dishes there. It’s best known for its chicken Sanju Baba, a dish whose recipe was given by actor Sanjay Dutt but as you will realise that there’s a lot more to this legendary place.2020-05-1929 minRadio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarPutiram Sweets Kolkata, Foodocracy IndiaMoving on from Mumbai for a bit to Kolkata for #foodocracyindia and specifically to Putiram Sweets at College Street. This is the podcast format of the series meant to highlight food legends from across the country. I hope you join me as I go on a nostalgia trip here and tell you what to eat on my behalf when you go to this 160 year old sweet shop next. If you have your own Putiram stories, then please share them in the comments section below.2020-05-1324 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarKoshy’s Bengaluru, #FoodocracyIndiaI went to this Bengaluru legend in 2010 for dinner and fell in love with it then. I went back to Koshy’s again in 2018 for breakfast and fell in love with it again. My latest visit was in 2020, this time for lunch, and my love affair for Koshy’s is still going strong! PS: Audio starts after 20 sec
#finelychoppedtv #podcast #bangalorefood #bangalorefinelychopped #indianfood2020-05-0932 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarPrakash Shakahari Upahar Kendra, Mumbai. Foodocracy IndiaI’ve started a series called #FoodocracyIndia which is aimed at giving a shoutout to eateries across India that we love. I use Instagram lives to make it an audio video podcast and have now figured out using google how to convert into an audio podcast. This is the first that I did. It’s on Prakash, a heritage Maharashtrian eatery in Dadar, Mumbai. The series is about food memories and personal narratives and I hope you join me on the ride. Please bear with me at the parts where I am referring to pictures I was showing from my blog...2020-05-0827 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarFood walk? What’s that?Food walks have become an increasingly popular way of discovering a place through its food. A global phenomenon that has slowly made its way to India too. In this episode I am going to tell you what a food walk is all about, my learnings from having attended food walks across the world and of being one of the first to conduct food walks in India. The episode will hopefully motivate you to go on one yourself, if not start one!2019-11-0731 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarEating at the moviesMemories of eating at movie theatres while watching movies in Kolkata in the late 80s and early to mid 90s and then in Mumbai in the late 90s and some thoughts on how that’s changed today and why that bothers me2019-10-3031 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarSo who won the battle of the biryani?My name is Kalyan and I am addicted to Biryani, one of the most popular dishes of India today. I grew up in Kolkata where I first fell in love with Biryani. I moved to Mumbai 20 years back and that is when I first realised that there are more than one type of Biryani. In this podcast I tell you about my travels across India trying the biryanis of Hyderabad, Lucknow, Andhra, Chennai, Kerala and Pune which left me hungry more. Do I have a point of view on which is the best Biryani of India? I do. You will...2019-08-0842 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarMy Mumbai breakfast trailBreakfast is one of the most important meals of the day to me. In this podcast I am going to tell you about some of my favourite breakfast places across the city of Mumbai and what to eat there. Hopefully this will help you start making your own list too. You will get an idea of the city’s cultural diversity, food heritage and current day trends by listening to it2019-07-1941 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarFor the love of samosas. A Kolkata to Mumbai coming of age storyI love samosas, the popular Indian snack. Who doesn’t you could say. In this episode I speak about my street corner mishtir dokan shingara memories from Kolkata and then of the samosas that I have encountered in Mumbai and the ones among them which are my favourites2019-07-1134 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe legend of Delhi’s Kwality Restaurant lives onThe Kwality Restaurant is located at Connaught Place. The hub of New Delhi. I went to the restaurant on a recent trip and was in awe of the makeover it seemed to have undergone and the majesty of the channa bhatoore that I had there. Do listen to this episode to know more about what happened and then read about it on my blog too. Here’s the link: https://www.finelychopped.net/2019/03/the-classiest-new-indian-restaurant-in.html2019-04-1121 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarAfter Sunset and till well after sunrise. My Love affair with Koshy’sKoshy’s Restaurant at MG Road in Bengaluru is a part of the city’s living heritage one could argue. In this episode, I tell you about how I fell in love with Koshy’s over the years. A love affair which started over dinner one night and spilled on to breakfast years later.2019-02-2825 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarA walk down Kolkata’s College Street: A food love songI spent five years of my life as a student in Kolkata’s College Street during the years 1992-1997. First at the Presidency College where I studied Sociology and then at the IISWBM where I did my MBA before I moved out to Mumbai. I returned to College Street two decades later in 2018 to go on a nostalgic food walk there. This time as a food writer and not a student. This podcast is about the places we visited and about what we ate there as well as about certain memories which one was unable to relive. You will hopefully at...2019-02-1558 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarFinding faith in Mumbai’s FortThis episode is about Fort in south Mumbai. The original central business district of the city that’s the commercial capital of modern India. It’s about being enchanted by its grandeur and history when I moved into the city twenty years back. About getting to know it better over the years that followed and about finding out the food treasures that it hosts. It’s about how these ‘discoveries’ gave provided the launching pad of my living a life as a food writer, after having originally come to the city as a market researcher. It’s about finding purpose and happines...2019-01-1538 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarHow I fell in love with Maharashtrian food in Mumbai’s Aaswad restaurantAaswad is 33 year old restaurant which offers Maharashtrian vegetarian food and sweets. This is where I first fell in love with Maharashtrian food. This episode is about how that happened2019-01-0831 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarLucky and the Biryani in the skyI am feeling Christmassy so I thought that I would share a warm and fuzzy story with you. Of Biryani though, and not turkey. It’s the story of Mumbai’s Lucky Restaurant and of how it welcomed me to Bandra when I moved in here 21 years back from Kolkata and made me feel at home. Lucky restaurant is located at SV Road at Bandra West and completed 80 years of its existence this year.2018-12-2426 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarCandies and me. My home away from homeCandies is a family run chain of eateries in Bandra in Mumbai. It’s one of my favourite spots to hang out in and Candies is where I spent my time while I made the transition from being a market researcher to being a food writer and the place is special to me. In this podcast I tell you about what makes Candies special and what you should order if you go there yourself2018-12-1937 min
Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan KarmakarThe birth of Radio Finely Chopped & my Ling’s Pavilion StoryLing’s Pavilion is a heritage Chinese restaurant of Mumbai and is one of my favourite restaurants in town. I got the idea of starting this podcast series while having lunch there and this episode originates from my experience that afternoon2018-12-1030 min