Radio Finely Chopped by Kalyan Karmakar

Chef Anurita Ghoshal started her working career in the field of advertising and then set up what is possibly India's largest head hunting firm dedicated to advertising and marketing. She faced mid career ennui a decade back and went to Le Cordon Bleau, Paris, to do her diploma in baking. She split the course over a number of years as she has a young daughter here and says that she (Anurita) called...

Rhea Mitra Dalal is a fellow Bengali who, like me, is married to a Parsi. Her mother in law was the late Dr Katy Dalal. A renowned archeologist, author and one of the pioneering home chefs of Mumbai. Rhea and her husband, Dr Kurush Dalal, a very well regard archeologist himself and passionate son of Mumbai and unabashed food lover, run Katy's Kitchen, the Parsi catering outfit started by Katy Dala...

Le 15 Patisserie's Pooja Dhingra is one of the biggest success stories of the Indian F&B industry in the last decade and represents the talented breed of young Indian chefs who have redefined how chefs are looked at in the country today. She is everyone's role model but has had her shares of ups and downs. Do join me while I chat to Pooja Dhingra on #FoodocracyForHer to understand what keeps her g...

Talking about a favourite snack of India’s Pink City as part of the #foodocracyindia series featuring popular eateries across India

My #foodocracyindia podcast where the original transmission is through an Instagram live session. In this case, in memory of a sandwich stall that we used to frequent when I worked in an ad agency at Mumbai's Nariman Point #indianfood #streetfood #Mumbaisandwich

Presenting Maharani, Kolkata, in the #foodocracyindia series By Kalyan Karmakar on #finelychoppedtv A place popular for its kachori/ kochuri, shingara/ samosa, cha/ tea and jilipi/ jalebi Celebrating local food #whereIndiaeats The episode was originally recorded as an Instgram live broadcast

Featuring Bhai Bhai Omelette centre in #foodocracyindia my AV live food podcast series featuring popular eateries across India. In this case, a restaurant in Surat in Gujarat which has more than 100 egg dishes on its menu.

Puncham Puriwala has been a part of Mumbai since the 1850s and this eatery in south Mumbai is still going strong. Run by the family that started it. Listen to its story in #foodocracyindia

Hotel Deluxe on #foodocracyindia and a I peep into the phenomenon of Keralite run restaurants in Mumbao.

Presenting the Chitoor Toddy Shop, Kochi, in the #foodocracyindia series. Celebrating local food where India eats. By Kalyan Karmakar on #finelychoppedtv

Presenting Hari Shankar Dhunjibhai Bhajiawala, Surat, in the foodocracyindia series celebrating local food joints across India By Kalyan Karmakar on #finelychoppedtv

New Taj Mahal Cafe, Mangalore. On the foodocracyindia series celebrating local food joints across India. Presented by Kalyan Karmakar on #finelychoppedtv In this podcast you will also get to hear about the impact that the Shetty community from Mangalore has had in Mumbai’s restaurant landscape apart from stories of this lovely 94 year old restaurant.

Franks, Jamshedpur, #foodocracyindia series celebrating local food joints across India Presented by #finelychoppedtv Jamshedpur is an undiscovered gem when it comes to exploring food in India and Frank’s Chinese, estd in 1968, is a restaurant that everyone who has grown up in the city swears by. I went there in November, 2019 and here’s my story. #jamshedpur #pork #friedrice #familyrun #indochines...

Renuka Khanawal, Nasik Part of the #foodocracyindia podcast series celebrating local food joints across India Presented by #finelychoppedtv Do listen to know more about khanawals, the small eateries, that Maharashtra thrives on, to get a glimpse of the food culture of Nasik and to learn about the mutton and misal on offer. #indianfood #maharashtrianfood #thali #foodpodcast #mutton #supportsmallbus...

Stories of Noor Mohammadi Hotel, a family run restaurant which offers Mughlai food in Mumbai’s Bhendi Bazar I talk of memories of earlier visits to the restaurant including during Ramzan and of some of my favourite dishes there. It’s best known for its chicken Sanju Baba, a dish whose recipe was given by actor Sanjay Dutt but as you will realise that there’s a lot more to this legendary place.

Moving on from Mumbai for a bit to Kolkata for #foodocracyindia and specifically to Putiram Sweets at College Street. This is the podcast format of the series meant to highlight food legends from across the country. I hope you join me as I go on a nostalgia trip here and tell you what to eat on my behalf when you go to this 160 year old sweet shop next. If you have your own Putiram stories, then p...

I went to this Bengaluru legend in 2010 for dinner and fell in love with it then. I went back to Koshy’s again in 2018 for breakfast and fell in love with it again. My latest visit was in 2020, this time for lunch, and my love affair for Koshy’s is still going strong! PS: Audio starts after 20 sec #finelychoppedtv #podcast #bangalorefood #bangalorefinelychopped #indianfood

I’ve started a series called #FoodocracyIndia which is aimed at giving a shoutout to eateries across India that we love. I use Instagram lives to make it an audio video podcast and have now figured out using google how to convert into an audio podcast. This is the first that I did. It’s on Prakash, a heritage Maharashtrian eatery in Dadar, Mumbai. The series is about food memories and personal nar...

Food walks have become an increasingly popular way of discovering a place through its food. A global phenomenon that has slowly made its way to India too. In this episode I am going to tell you what a food walk is all about, my learnings from having attended food walks across the world and of being one of the first to conduct food walks in India. The episode will hopefully motivate you to go on on...

Memories of eating at movie theatres while watching movies in Kolkata in the late 80s and early to mid 90s and then in Mumbai in the late 90s and some thoughts on how that’s changed today and why that bothers me

My name is Kalyan and I am addicted to Biryani, one of the most popular dishes of India today. I grew up in Kolkata where I first fell in love with Biryani. I moved to Mumbai 20 years back and that is when I first realised that there are more than one type of Biryani. In this podcast I tell you about my travels across India trying the biryanis of Hyderabad, Lucknow, Andhra, Chennai, Kerala and Pun...

Breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day to me. In this podcast I am going to tell you about some of my favourite breakfast places across the city of Mumbai and what to eat there. Hopefully this will help you start making your own list too. You will get an idea of the city’s cultural diversity, food heritage and current day trends by listening to it

I love samosas, the popular Indian snack. Who doesn’t you could say. In this episode I speak about my street corner mishtir dokan shingara memories from Kolkata and then of the samosas that I have encountered in Mumbai and the ones among them which are my favourites

The Kwality Restaurant is located at Connaught Place. The hub of New Delhi. I went to the restaurant on a recent trip and was in awe of the makeover it seemed to have undergone and the majesty of the channa bhatoore that I had there. Do listen to this episode to know more about what happened and then read about it on my blog too. Here’s the link: https://www.finelychopped.net/2019/03/the-classiest...

Koshy’s Restaurant at MG Road in Bengaluru is a part of the city’s living heritage one could argue. In this episode, I tell you about how I fell in love with Koshy’s over the years. A love affair which started over dinner one night and spilled on to breakfast years later.