No matter what you’ve heard, there is no one definitive or best gumbo recipe out there. Gumbo is a deeply personal dish and there are as many versions of it as there are cooks in Louisiana, perhaps even more. There are Cajun gumbos, Creole gumbos, and numerous variations, like the one served at New Orleans…Continue Reading

With an eggy soak enriched with both milk and heavy cream, this superlative French toast recipe winks at bread pudding. But, it’s not just the ingredients that flirt with that other classic, there’s also something to the method. The bread in this recipe gets a long soak—about 10 minutes on each side—which delivers a remarkably…Continue Reading

If you’re the kind of person who’s always reaching for more lemon juice and more salt to properly season your food, you probably love preserved lemons (and as someone with a five-lemon minimum on each grocery run, I commiserate). Preserved lemons win top marks in the categories of acidity, salinity, and tang, and fresh lemons…Continue Reading

In another advisory for nationals stranded in Ukraine, India on Saturday advised them to exercise caution at all times and not move to any border posts to exit the country without prior coordination with its officials.   The fresh advisory was issued by Indian embassy in Ukraine. It particularly advised its nationals staying in the eastern…Continue Reading

In the vote for UN Security Council resolution by the US, India abstained as it called for the immediate cessation of hostilities. New Delhi also said that dialogue is the only answer to settle disputes.   The resolution looked to “deplore in the strongest terms” “Russia’s aggression” against Ukraine.   On Friday afternoon, the 15-nation Security…Continue Reading

European Union’s envoy to India Ugo Astuto has warned that Russia will “pay a price” for invading Ukraine. Speaking to WION’s Principal Diplomatic Correspondent Sidhant Sibal, Ugo assured that the sanctions announced by the bloc will “have a very severe impact and will take a toll on the Russian economy.” Talking about the EU’s Indo-Pacific…Continue Reading

Romania’s envoy to Delhi Daniela-Mariana Sezonov Ţane has said that her country will be providing food and accommodation to students who are being evacuated from war-torn Ukraine. Speaking to our Principal Diplomatic Correspondent Sidhant Sibal, envoy Daniela said, “Romanian govt offered support for a couple of days with food and accommodation to students and not…Continue Reading

Its’s one thing to train in blue-water sailing in a creek and entirely another to be doing so at the high seas, in the Bay of Bengal. Well, you could call the transition a sea change. This is precisely the feeling that nine women officers of the Indian army experienced, after completing a historic expedition…Continue Reading

The ruling Biju Janata Dal was leading in 249 Zilla Parishad Zones (ZPZ) seats while BJP candidates are ahead in 30 and Congress in 13 as per early trends of Odisha Panchayat polls, officials said on Saturday.The counting of votes for 315 Zilla Parishad Zone seats began at 8 am in different block headquarters on…Continue Reading