Alas, all things wicked start from innocence

"Good taste is the worst vice ever invented" --Edith Sitwell

It has been long I have been thinking of putting together my expeditions in Delhi for food, which is not trivial as you might think. Being a solitary soul, life everyday is constantly adapted to where you can find dinner at night. I have missed the deadlines quite some time, and have a ready stock of biscuits and coke to tide over in case, but it has been commonplace that you find the old Sardarji at Kingsway Camp happily invite "aap andar bait jayiye" despite him having his shop half closed and employees ready to leave at 12.30 midnight.

I have traveled to probably all major cities in India, but nowhere could I find the warmth of the Sardarji who readily offers me food, despite the shop is half closed and employees yearning to get back home. I have been shooed away from a Chennai restaurant at 9.00 PM, denied food from a roadside shack at Kochi, but never denied dinner anywhere in Delhi if they could by any chance afford to spare me one.

As a "honorary consultant" on food matters to many of my colleagues, I have had many ask me to write about the places, I had some ideas, but as an idealist I always wanted the perfect plot, which never took shape. I dont know what the tipping point was, but when somebody who was not so familiar to me, but following my pics on my facebook album titled "For the Gut and Soul @ Delhi" asked me yesterday where he could get "boti kabab", I readily decided to put up the details on a blog. I had no idea people would remember what I had uploaded years ago. I have decided to put it on an "as-it-is" basis. Thanks to blogger, a fantastic tool I discovered years ago, I can now blog from my mobile, and even share photographs in realtime. I hope to put up maps, locations and possibly every detail which could help you locate the place. I hope to add a few more features on this blog which would enable people to feed me back (or at least give a feedback !!).

The name of the blog was obvious: it shares the taste of Delhi.

Hope you would enjoy reading, and probably enjoy even more by eating out !!