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A Star on the Plate-Part II
The Star Travels — Globalisation, Translation, and Cultural Friction When the Michelin star left France, it did not merely cross borders; it crossed cultural grammars. Within France and much of Western Europe, Michelin’s judgments unfolded inside a shared culinary imagination. The idea of a restaurant as a distinct public institution, the figure of the chef as…
A Star on the Plate-Part I
From Tyres to Tables A Question That Refused to Be Small It began, as many serious inquiries do, with a child’s excitement. My nine-year-old grandson had gone out to dinner with his parents in Manhattan. The meal, by all accounts, was memorable. But what animated him afterwards was not merely the food. It was the…
Between Flights, Between Glasses
Airports are curious theatres of waiting. They are not quite places yet not entirely passages either—thresholds where the world pauses briefly before moving on. When I was in Helsinki, stopping over for a few hours on my way from New York to Delhi, that sense of suspension was heightened by the snow. It fell incessantly,…
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