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India Abroad
June 24, 2011
Floyd’s the Top Chef Master
Floyd Cardoz, the chef behind the New York restaurant Tabla, has
taken home the top prize in
the third season of Top Chef
Masters. Cardoz divided the
judges with his inclusion of
the simple Upma in his
meal, but ‘in the end, (he)
impressed because of the
spice and passion that
infused his final meal of the
season,’ said The Wall Street
Journal. ‘The three-course
feast also featured a rice-
crusted snapper in a fennel-
laced broth and a reinter-
preted version of a
Malaysian beef stew… Our
guess is that Cardoz won by
doing exactly what he does
at Tabla — that is, honoring his Indian gastronomic roots and finding a way to reinvent his native
cuisine at the same time.’ The Mumbai-born chef pledged his $100,000 prize money to the Young
Scientist Cancer Research Fund at New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
Sir Vidia,
the chauvinist
REUTERS
Sir V S Naipaul has dismissed women authors as ‘unequal’ to him, reported the Daily Telegraph. ‘Women writers are different, they are quite different. I read a piece of writing
and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman
or not. I think (it is) unequal to me,’ the Indian-origin Nobel
laureate told the British newspaper. It was due to women’s ‘
sentimentality, the narrow view of the world,’ he said. ‘And
inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house,
so that comes over in her writing too,’ Naipaul said. Well, they
are certainly not your equal in arrogance, Mr Naipaul, but for
the rest, their words speak louder than yours.
And Suzy’s off the chopping block
When MasterChef went from 38 contestants to 18 last week, it was a big relief to see Suzy Singh
remain in the game. The 27-year-old neural engineer from Chicago had wowed the
judges with her Tandoori Sea Bass to
make it to the top 38. Last week, she
worked the same magic with her Butter
Chicken. A first generation South Asian,
she ‘loves to cook classic French and
Indian food with a molecular gastronomy
twist,’ and like most people of Indian-origin, loves her spices. What’s not to like?
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