Celebrated Chef Cyrus Todiwala introduces exclusive Odisha tour by The Cook’s Adventures

Acclaimed chef and restaurateur Cyrus Todiwala OBE DL is to share a new culinary journey to Odisha in eastern India, curated by The Cook’s Adventures, with his travel community. The Cook’s Adventures, specialists in immersive food and culture tours, is the travel arm of Chef Dev Biswal’s The Cook’s Tales restaurant in Canterbury.  Biswal has designed a unique itinerary to showcase his native Odisha’s hidden treasures — from vibrant local markets and tribal traditions to coastal eco-living and the region’s deeply rooted culinary heritage. As part of the launch, The Cook’s Adventures will co-present a special six-course tasting menu at Café Spice Namasté in London on Thursday 14th November. Guests…

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The Simplest Curry

Plate of chicken curry with rice, garnished with lime and herbs, surrounded by small bowls of colorful spices on a rustic wooden table.

Curry is a hearty, fragrant dish made from stewed vegetables, legumes, or meat, enriched with a blend of spices that give it depth and warmth. The spice mix known as “curry” isn’t a single spice, but rather a carefully balanced combination of turmeric, coriander, cumin, pepper, fennel, ginger, cloves, and other aromatics. Much like khmeli-suneli…

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Destination Slaithwaite Review

We’ve been expanding our search around the Huddersfield area for new restaurants to try and last weekend we decided to head over to Destination in Slaithwaite for a Friday night out and were very glad we did. Slaithwaite itself has quite a lot of development work going on in the town centre so the restaurant doesn’t look great from the outside as the neighbouring building is being renovated and is covered in scaffolding, but don’t let that put you off. They’ve also rather over done the incense burner when you walk in but apart from that the decor is good and it looks to have been recently modernised. We had…

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