by Sonal Sher | Aug 29, 2013
Everyone loves Croissants. You are inhuman if you don’t. And after I finally made them from scratch yesterday I found out exactly why they taste so freaking brilliant. Because of all the butter. And because of all the Work! I thought making tarts was work but after...
by Sonal Sher | Jul 23, 2013
There are not enough love stories in the world. There are more than enough romances but when it comes to love, believe it or not audience tends to prefer unrequited love and somehow now the words ‘happily ever after’ are also uttered with bitter cynicism. People say...
by Sonal Sher | Nov 5, 2012
Often in mainstream cinema there are instances of grave horror that are mentioned but never explained. Joachim Lafosse’s film Our Children (French: À perdre la raison) is inspired by one such case of Genevieve Lhermitte, who turned herself to the police after coldly...
by Sonal Sher | Aug 17, 2012
Coq au Vin There is always this mystique associated with anything ‘French’. It is after all, the macaroons which gets the ooohs and aaaahs, not our own roadside ‘Nankhatai’. The Baguette tastes much better to our minds than the ‘Pav’ and of course the ‘Ratatouille’...
by Sonal Sher | Jul 1, 2012
Sweet tarts are almost the same as savoury ones, the difference being the filling and the fact that the pastry crust has sugar instead of salt in it. A french apple tart is a great way to use the slightly raw green apples that start coming in winters. The difficult...
by Sonal Sher | Apr 1, 2011
I saw the movie about three weeks back but as I sat to write about it today, I realized a different angle to the name. After all, the word ‘crazy’ aptly described the dynamics between the various members of a family irrespective of the nature of the problems....
