Recipes
Chicken Tikka Masala: British-Indian Comfort Classic
The beloved fusion dish born in Glasgow kitchens. Tender marinated chicken in a creamy tomato-spiced sauce that became Britain's favorite curry.
Nov 14, 2023
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Recipes
One-Pot Red Lentil Dal: Spiced, Creamy Comfort
Indian dal elevated with warm spices and a sizzling tadka. A vegetarian classic that cooks in 40 minutes, feeds a family, costs almost nothing.
Apr 18, 2024
Diving
Manta Rays and Whale Sharks: The Encounters and the Etiquette
The Indian Ocean hosts some of diving's biggest animal encounters. The rules for approaching them properly matter more than most divers realise.
Sep 12, 2025
Recipes
Traditional Emirati Food: What It Is, and Why You Rarely See It
A cuisine built by pearl divers, date farmers and traders across the Indian Ocean. The spicing came by dhow, the technique came from scarcity, and almost none of it is served in restaurants.
Aug 10, 2026
Recipes
Takra: The Ayurvedic Buttermilk That Every Classical Text Bothers to Describe
Diluted, churned yoghurt seasoned with cumin, ginger and curry leaves. Takra appears in the Charaka Samhita, the Sushruta Samhita and the Ashtanga Hridaya, and it remains the most useful thing an Ayurvedic kitchen makes daily.
Sep 4, 2026
Recipes
Sattvic Cooking Removes Onion and Garlic, Which Is Harder Than It Sounds and Not in the Gita
A yogic kitchen builds savoury depth without alliums. The technique is real and worth learning, but the common claim that the Bhagavad Gita bans onion and garlic does not survive reading chapter seventeen.
Sep 4, 2026
Diving
Diving the Maldives: Atolls, Channels and the Seasons That Matter
The Maldives is not one dive destination but hundreds of atolls with different currents. Here is how the calendar actually decides what you see.
Aug 9, 2024
Travel
Plant-Based Dining Across the Smaller Gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman
A vegan bakery in Janabiyah, a Four Seasons tasting menu backed by a Saudi prince, and Muscat's coconut-bowl breakfast spot: the region's quieter vegan scene.
May 27, 2026
Design
A Pavilion Built From Police Riot Shields Asks What a Material Remembers
The Pangolin Shield goes up on the Strand next month, assembled from Indian police shields and rain shields over bamboo. Reuse in architecture usually argues about carbon. This one argues about meaning.
Aug 17, 2026
Travel
Where to Eat Plant-Based in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
A Michelin-starred vegetarian tasting menu, a food court burger stand, and the cafes in between: plant-based dining across Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Aug 14, 2025
Business
Silver Went to $121 and Came Most of the Way Back. The Shortage That Did It Has Not Gone Away
Silver set a record just under $122 an ounce in late January, then lost close to half of it. The London squeeze behind the spike has eased rather than ended, and the metal is still up almost 74 per cent on the year.
Aug 18, 2026
Recipes
Chicken Machboos: Gulf Spiced Rice with Aromatic Chicken
This Gulf classic transforms simple ingredients into fragrant, tender chicken and rice. Bahrain and Qatar claim it as their own, and once you taste it, you'll understand why.
Sep 15, 2023
Recipes
Koshari: Egypt's Soul-Filling Street Food Breakfast
Rice, lentils, pasta, and crispy onions layered together and crowned with spiced tomato and garlic sauces. Egypt's national dish is humble street food that tastes like pure comfort in a bowl.
Jul 14, 2024
Recipes
Japanese Chicken Katsu Curry: Crispy and Comforting
A beloved Japanese comfort dish: panko-crusted chicken cutlet served alongside a silky curry sauce. Crispy, warm, and endlessly satisfying.
Mar 12, 2024
Recipes
Falafel Was Almost Certainly Egyptian, Made With Fava Beans, and the Chickpea Came Later
The version most of the world eats is the Levantine one, and it is a revision. Egypt still makes it the older way, with fava beans, under a different name. The argument about who owns it is genuinely political.
Aug 21, 2026
Health
Ayurveda Deserves to Be Taken Seriously, Which Means Saying That One in Five Products Tested Contained Lead
A three thousand year old medical system with real insights about routine, diet and constitution also has a documented contamination problem. Two studies published in JAMA found heavy metals in about a fifth of the Ayurvedic products they tested.
Sep 4, 2026
Health
Six Breaths a Minute Is the Number, and It Is One of the Few Wellness Claims With Trials Behind It
Yogic breathing is unusual among wellness practices in having a measurable, replicated physiological effect. The size of it is modest, the mechanism is well understood, and a few of the more dramatic techniques carry real risk.
Sep 4, 2026
Business
Red Sea Tanker Attacks Push Oil Above $96 a Barrel
Houthi claims against two Saudi tankers have exposed the weakness in plans to bypass Hormuz, sending Brent higher as two vital shipping routes face risk.
Jul 23, 2026
Diving
Oman Below the Surface: Daymaniyat Islands and the Hallaniyat Wrecks
Oman splits its diving into two distant reserves, one a protected reef north of Muscat, the other a remote wreck-strewn archipelago in the south.
Mar 15, 2025
Business
How the Red Sea Crisis Is Reshaping Gulf Supply Chains
Houthi attacks on shipping have rerouted global trade around Africa, and Gulf importers are absorbing the fallout in freight rates and delivery times.
Feb 5, 2024
