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India Today, May 17, 1999 |
| The whole hog, by- Robin
Abreu |
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The book pretty much goes that way, with
about 600 pages of listings, a one-stop guide to everything
you wanted to know about restaurants and party arrangements
in Mumbai but didn't know whom to ask and what to ask
for. Part II of the Mid-Day Good Food Guide is abou8t
as comprehensive as you can get about food in Mumbai and
author-compiler Rashmi Uday Singh, an unabashed foodie
who also doubles as an income-tax official has packed
in something for everyone - from and executive with a
budget to those for whom budget is a word in someone else's
dictionary. The recent party to hardsell the book (Rs.
100, in two volumes) and Evian mineral water drew about
1,500 at a south Mumbai pier. Ten top Mumbai restaurants
held a cook out on the spot for the who's who - splashed
do. Many of the guests probably won't care much about
some of the useful trivia in the book, about where to
find bakeries or who offers cooking classes or a dabba
service or dipsticks. This wealth of information is what
raises the guide above its one failing, one all such guides
suffer from: it's impossible for one publication to comment
wisely - and correctly-on all types of cuisine. But it's
working. Some tiffinwallahs have stopped taking individual
orders. They have been flooded with institutional orders
since the book's release. |
