Column: The Good Life: for Mint Lounge
Dinner with Alain Passard
When your food sings to you 5 min read 23 Dec 2011, 09:22 PM ISTThe Good Life | Shoba Narayan As fresh as it gets: Chef Alain Passard has a kitchen garden in France. Photo by Maurice Rougemont/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images . As we are introduced, Paul Pontallier, the legendary winemaker of Château Margaux, takes my hand, bends down…and kisses it—exactly like Elaine Sciolino describes in her book, La Seduction: How the French Play the Game of Life. I walk in prickly (more about that later) but by the time Pontallier releases my hand, I am charmed. We are at The [...]
Our Native Village: Hotel Review: Gourmet Magazine
Our Native Village 11.16.07 This 20-room rustic hideaway bills itself as India’s "only 100 percent eco-friendly back-to-basics lifestyle resort." In plain English, that means solar power, windmills, composting, bio-gas plant (no, it doesn’t smell), organic gardens, and a "zero-waste" policy that recycles everything including water from washbasins and toilets to irrigate the garden. A couple of hours from Bangalore, where I live, it attracts young techies who seek its peace and solitude before they go back to being "Sam" or "Carla" at their tech-support call centers. WHAT'S THE BIG WOW? The beds are supremely comfortable for rooms so Spartan. The massive [...]
New York Times: My first article
This is the first article that I wrote for the New York Times. I didn't realize it was available on the Times' digital archives till someone forwarded it to me.