Posted in Cochin, Fabulous Flavors, Featured Traveler, food, General Travel, Hidden Gems, India, Jaipur, Kerala, Tour Report, Travel Spotlight, Travel Stories on Apr 26th, 2012
Go Ahead Director of Product Development, Lael Kassis recently returned home from Go Ahead’s Grand Tour of India. Below, Lael shares his thoughts about India’s incredibly varied and delicious cuisine. Read Lael’s previous post on India here. For a food lover like me, India is paradise. The strong and delicious tastes and smells of Indian [...]
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Go Ahead Director of Product Development, Lael Kassis recently returned home from Go Ahead’s Grand Tour of India. Here, he shares some of his thoughts about this extraordinary destination and why traveling in India is such a one-of-a-kind opportunity. Lael meets villagers in Rajasthan One of my favorite memories while traveling in India was seeing [...]
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Posted in Asia, Cochin, Delhi, Featured Traveler, General Travel, India, Jaipur, Ranthambore, Taj Mahal, Travel Photography on Dec 7th, 2011
Go Ahead Graphic Designer Christine Patronick recently returned from a tour of India, and the photographs she brought home blew us away. She spoke of “a complete feeling of being swept up in another world, so different from the one I live in back home,” but we thought we’d let her imagery speak for itself. [...]
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Posted in India, Recipes on Aug 22nd, 2011
Our previous recipes focused on the flavors of Spain, France, Ireland and Italy; for our next installment, we take you to the Indian subcontinent. Nihari is a spicy meat stew first created in the palaces of northern India. Traditionally, nihari slow-cooks overnight, but this recipe speeds things up a bit. Like most recipes, you’re free [...]
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Usually, when we talk about the “treasures” you can find on an India tour, we’re speaking metaphorically. In the southern Indian state of Kerala, the term can now be used literally. The Indian Supreme Court recently ordered an inventory of six subterranean rooms at the Padmanabhaswamy Temple in the city of Thiruvananthapuram, located in the [...]
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