Riding an astronomical price ticket of 48 lakh, Indian delicacies has once more had its international time out on Twitterverse for higher or for purse.

When it involves hogging the proverbial fifteen minutes of fame on Twitterverse, there are two sure-shot recipes that India can financial institution upon. Couture and delicacies.

What a Sabyasachi can do on international pink carpets for India’s couture, Sheekh Kebab or Shahi Lamb Karahi do for its delicacies.

What a Sandeep Khosla-Abu Jaani ‘Cannes’ do on the French Riviera, an Okra Masala or Kasturi Chicken Tikka doth do at Birmingham.

Of Plates of the Caribbean

When Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp and his rating of cronies just lately splurged at Indian eatery, Varanasi, in Birmingham, they not solely gifted a fortune to the NRI restaurateur, but additionally a tongue-twister of a menu listing to us poor Tweeple to grasp.

As if Tharoorisms are usually not sufficient meals for thought to train our vocabulary, the Depp dine ‘n’ wine has left us Tweeple with extra of stylised recipe nomenclatures to grasp. From Himalaya mustard crushed potato to black stone flower heeran to pickled okra masala, our poor vocabulary and pronunciations could put us in a pickle.

With its £500 gem of a cocktail crafted with a 24-carat gold leaf topping, Jewel of Varanasi, the Depp dine ‘n’ wine listing reads nothing in need of an epicurean equal of a Booker lengthy listing.

The curious case of all that Guzzles is gold.

Being in a pickle over frilly Depp dinner nomenclatures isn’t any mere trifle. Given the truth that Tweeple barely recovered from mastering the Platinum Pudding Short List. Thankfully, for a nation that dishes out tongue-twisting Tharoorisms to ticklers of translations (‘fal ooda’ as which means fruit fly), Shabnam Russo’s Mumbai recipe, rose falooda cake was, surprisingly, the least of a pronunciation problem on the platinum pudding quick listing that learn like a gastronomic encyclopedia. Passionfruit and thyme frangipane tart to jubilee bundt cake with dubonnet jam, to 4 nations’ pudding crafted from Scottish berries to Yorkshire rhubarb, Irish butter cream to Welsh desserts.

Of Princes & Poppadums

That Indian delicacies manages to have its international time out within the darkest days is certainly no cakewalk.

The pandemic had spelled #StayHome for a lot of Indian life, lock inventory and attire, however not as a lot for desi khana Khazana using videshi, Even in corona’s throes, Twitterverse tickled right into a tizzy over a takeaway touring from an Indian eatery to Britain’s Prince William’s palatial excessive desk. The Prince’s poppadums ‘n’ pints within the pandemic put India on the Twitterverse trending radar earlier, too.

The prince’s pampering his palate in pandemic’s peak with samosas and mango chutney had spelt for our humble streetside “sams” one other peak. Pedestal-isation.

The prince’s penchant for his pizza to be baked with Indian curry topping gifted recent frills to the fashioning of fusion meals. Pizza’s new twist and Twitter tryst.

Which brings us to the 2 tribes of Tweeple to not be handled as trifles.

First, those that eat to tweet.

These are Tweeple pushed as a lot by a love for a designer sizzler to sushi plate, as by a love for standing replace.

Second, these whose life is extra of eat ‘n’ neat, much less of tweet.

These are Tweeple given to gorging on a gastronomic deal with and a peg neat, with scant a thought for issues tweet.

The Curious Case of My Big Fat Leek Pudding.