Coonoor restaurant introduces festive menu for Christmas

[ad_1] Crostini with egg plant caponata and assorted cheese coated with sumac, roasted sesame, parsley, paprika and tiny berries | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Cafe Diem in Coonoor. A cheerful Santa holds aloft a bunch of red and green balloons. The nativity scene is up as […]

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This Christmas, experience the nostalgia of traditional borma-baked plum cakes in Kerala

[ad_1] A cake baked in a borma (a traditional coconut shell-fired oven) is the stuff of nostalgia. People from a generation or two ago, when cakes were not as widespread, fondly remember them. Bakeries were few and far between, and those primarily baked bread. Kochi-based baker Tsarina Abrao Vacha’s great-great-grandfather, Ignatius Rozario, is said to […]

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This Christmas, experience the nostalgia of traditional borma-baked plum cakes in Kerala

[ad_1] A cake baked in a borma (a traditional coconut shell-fired oven) is the stuff of nostalgia. People from a generation or two ago, when cakes were not as widespread, fondly remember them. Bakeries were few and far between, and those primarily baked bread. Kochi-based baker Tsarina Abrao Vacha’s great-great-grandfather, Ignatius Rozario, is said to […]

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