This week’s theme made me revisit my school days when I was in 8th standard. It’s still a mystery to me, how I vividly remember that day when for the first time I tasted banana peels. It was the last week of Ramadan, I had returned from school, hungry and …
Read More »The Heavy Metal Chef: An Interview with Sahil Makhija A.K.A The Demonstealer
Picture yourself in front of a 2000 strong audience, as you intensely scream into the microphone in musical ecstasy, shredding blazing fast symphonies on the guitar as the drummer fills the atmosphere with the thundering double bass patterns, which sound like Odin’s stomach rumbling. Amidst the layers of symphonies and …
Read More »First tasting of THC Labs’ 5 layered biryani
‘Food Week’ was our first attempt at an alternate exploration of food and all we can say that we are still in the process of assembling ingredients for the flavourful biryani that we will be serving in the future. Eating is the most fundamental method in which we convert matter …
Read More »Food Week Recap: A Guide to Food and Related Ideas
If there is one thing I have to stand by, with absolute certainty, it has to be that knowledge and our hunger for ever more knowledge runs us, it alone propels us to do all that we do. At The Holy Connection Labs, we are meeting this ideal head on. …
Read More »Why saying ‘grace’ before eating is not a bad idea?
The norm of praying before meals is wide spread across various religions all over the world. In Christianity, the grace prayers before meals demonstrate gratefulness towards God for the food that has been provided (by Him). In Islam, an acknowledgement in the form of a prayer is said before meals: …
Read More »6 scary facts you didn’t know about your brain on food
You think you know your brain? And you think you know the food you eat? And you think you know how your brain combined with your food can trick you and scare you? Well, think again. But read on for now, if you are curious about these two things that …
Read More »The art of cuisine: Hand or no-hands, that is the question
If you walk through an eatery in India, you will definitely feel a bit out of place if you despise a “hands-on” approach to cooking and eating. The tradition of eating with your bare hands is one that has been heralded in Indian cuisine for quite a while. Most of …
Read More »Foodopreneur 2: The story of Cold Play Juices and Frootle
Here’s the story of another food entrepreneur who took control of his life and chose to grab opportunity to by its horns. Dhaval Panchal, one of the founders of ‘Frootle’ and ‘Cold Play Juices’ tells about his experience as he moved from a job of selling electronics to starting one …
Read More »Delhicious: A definitive guide to Delhi food
As Delhi offers a smorgasbord of eating options, we felt we could not do justice by confining it to ‘Under Rs.100’ theme. Instead, we have come up with a theme based exploration of Delhi’s edible caboodle (based on suggestions from ‘Doc’ Aditya Singh and Jitesh ‘Jandy’ Anand). Themes Classification: 1. …
Read More »Does music affect the taste of food?
“If you pour some music on whatever’s wrong, it’ll sure help out”– Levon Helm Music and food are connected to each since olden times. The relationship between music and food is a subtle one, involving a coalescence of all our senses and emotions. In both Western and non-Western cultures, …
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