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Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) has reared a nursery of seedless kinno and started its sale on commercial basis, said Dr Kausar Abdullah Malik, member Administration and Biosciences, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). He visited the nursery at NIAB here Saturday and lauded the efforts of PAEC scientists, observing that Pakistan could earn [...]

His business interests swing from jewellery to cuisine. Hands which once used to design Hyderabadi necklaces are now expert at prickle recipes. Twenty-nine-year-old Waqar Ahmed’s food business in Karachi’s Hyderabad Colony is a success story. ‘I started business in 1996,’ said Mr Ahmed, who runs Deccan Zaiqa House, one of 12 shops in the small [...]

Pakistani chefs use the same robust spices, chillies, turmeric, coriander, cumin and garam masala. And tandoori cooking and Mughlai food are intrinsic to their culture too. So can our much-loved, much-loathed neighbours claim their own culinary identity? Absolutely, say chefs visiting from across the border for an ongoing food festival in Mumbai. “The usage is [...]

The city will taste south Indian food under a “culinary diplomacy” move as three Indian chefs have arrived in the city to take part in a food festival. The festival, Solidarity with a Southern Twist, will continue from September 4 to 17 at Pearl Continental Hotel. This is a return visit from Uppal Orchid, an [...]

The Pakistanis are coming. And in droves to India. The singers were always there from Pakistan — flitting in and out of the country, cutting an album and zooming off to the other side. But off late, there are people from different professions and interests coming to India to see their counterparts. For instance, a [...]

Hot Chappal Kabab from NWFP, mouth-watering Paye from Punjab, delicious Saji from Balochistan and the incomparable Aab Gosht from Kashmir are just some of the food items that are drawing scores of eaters to the Food Park in Islamabad. Offering scrumptious food from all over Pakistan in one single place is a sure recipe for [...]

“A coffee?” asks chief executive Minoo Bhandara, reaching across his desk. “Or would you prefer a beer?” Mr Bhandara can afford such audacity because he runs Murree Brewery, Pakistan’s lone beer factory in a country under prohibition. All this despite a phalanx of official restrictions. The explanation is simple, says Mr Bhandara: “Ninety-nine per cent [...]

The master chefs from Lahore’s Avari Hotel are here with Pakistan’s robust flavours for a 10-day food festival at Andheri’s ITC Grand Maratha Sheraton’s The Peshwa Pavilion. At the other end of the city, chefs Wakeel Ahmed and Azam Hussain Bhatti (of Pakistan International Airlines) have brought yet another native food fest, at Marine Plaza’s [...]

A two-day event called “Food Street” in Lahore, Pakistan last summer drew over 6,000 people looking to sample food from four different provinces. A year later, that curiosity was shared halfway around the world on Staten Island — albeit on a smaller scale — when some 200 people packed a Pakistani picnic held last month [...]

The festival was inaugurated by the deputy head of a visiting mission from the Greek embassy in Islamabad. The festival kicked off with performances by gymnasts in consonance with the Olympic games in Athens. Women clad in white, wearing crowns of fresh leaves welcomed the chief guest through a specially decorated entrance. Greek artists Yannis [...]