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Taste of Life: Poona’s monsoon: Season of damp, mildew, and sociability

Lady Falkland (SOURCED: WIKIMEDIA)

Published on Jun 12, 2025 07:34 AM IST

A tale of American philanthropy efforts in Colonial India

The earnest appeals of the Indian missionaries, early in the spring of 1897, moved George Lambert, an American Mennonite missionary and compelled him to establish the organization “Home and Foreign Relief Commission” (HT PHOTO)

Published on Feb 27, 2025 07:28 AM IST

Taste of Life: Gandhian who used charity rituals to feed kids, ignite patriotism

Lakshmibai Thuse mobilised ‘Vanarsena’ and ‘Manjarsena’ along with women to participate in social and political activities in the 1930s. (SOURCED)

Updated on Aug 15, 2024 07:20 AM IST

Taste of Life: Forging close bonds through food

A popular “honeymoon cake” was the Eccles cake. It was a small, round pie filled with currants and made from flaky pastry with butter, sometimes topped with sugar. (WIKIEMEDIA PHOTO)

Updated on Jul 11, 2024 08:20 AM IST

Taste of Life: Watermelon, most prized fruit gifted to & by Europeans in India

Watermelons were grown during the hot months in the sandy beds of the Mula and the Mutha rivers; the plants were put down at the end of February and would be ripe in April and May. (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

Updated on May 30, 2024 08:02 AM IST

Taste of Life: How Alphonso mango became an indicator of wealth & influence in 20th century

Indians, rich and poor, loved mangoes. But the newly formed educated middle-class in Poona was quick to abandon the local varieties and soon learned to love the Alphonso. (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

Updated on May 23, 2024 07:52 AM IST

Taste of Life: When ice was transported to Poona from Bombay in bullock carts

Landing ice at Bombay. (The Church Missionary Gleaner, Nov 1889)

Updated on May 09, 2024 05:26 PM IST

Taste of Life: When chicken and beef essence, and beef tea was ‘too healthy’ to be consumed for enjoyment during rail travel

Surgeon-Captain WH Burke urged Indian Medical Service in the Bombay, Madras, and Bengal presidencies to request railway companies in India to set up more refreshment rooms at stations as luncheon basket containing beef tea and chicken essence was not recommended for healthy passengers. (AP (PIC FOR REPRESENTATION))

Updated on Nov 30, 2023 06:20 AM IST

Taste of Life: When leaders in Poona agreed to disagree on cannabis laws

The drugs retailed in Bombay and Poona were ‘ganja’, ‘bhang’, ‘charas’, ‘majum’, ‘yakuti’, ‘shrikhand’, ‘penda’, and ‘bojah’. (SOURCED)

Updated on Sep 07, 2023 12:23 AM IST

Taste of Life: American cottonseed oil makers faced opposition from “Swadeshi” promoters

Merchants in Bombay and Poona who introduced cottonseed oil as a substitute for ghee reported a failure because of conservative attitude of the masses against any innovations, particularly in the line of foods. (SOURCED)

Updated on Jun 22, 2023 12:21 AM IST

Taste of Life: When Poona’s favourite drink was pomegranate juice

Pomegranates from Kabul had become popular in cities like Bombay and Poona (REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE)

Updated on May 18, 2023 12:34 AM IST

Taste of Life: When lemonade and ‘John Collins’ stirred up spirits of European soldiers

The craze for aerated water and lemonade made a few Indians sell the beverages in the bazaars. In 1883, Sadar Bazaar had nine soda water and lemonade sellers. (REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO)

Updated on Apr 20, 2023 04:34 PM IST

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