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| VIEW FROM THE TOP
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| - Rashmi Uday Singh |
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Author of eight first-of-their-kind, best-selling books, Rashmi Uday Singh is synonymous with good food and an in-depth study of the food scene in Mumbai, Pune and now Chennai. It is her aim to unearth, research and share useful and usable foodie information and this is reflected in her newspaper columns, Good Food Guides, Good Food Academy, Good Food Gallerie and Good Food Sunshine Workshops.
Rashmi has written about food for 22 years. Having studied literature and then journalism, she joined the Indian revenue Service in 1977, where she made time to acquire additional degrees in Law, Business Administration and writing about food in between assessing India's largest companies. She quit as Deputy Commissioner to pursue more creative avenues in newsprint and television.
Almost ten years ago Rashmi started the food column in the "Times of India", "Independent" and trained with the BBC London and produced, scripted, directed and anchored "Health Today" for 52 weeks on DD Metro.
A food writer by passion and profession, Rashmi writes weekly food columns in the "Times of India's" Bombay Times and "The Hindu" in Chennai. She also writes a weekly national column on health for "The Indian Express".
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| WINE LORE |
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Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra
Dissolving the Pearl,
Joshua Reynolds
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| In this sexually-charged image Kitty Fisher, a high-class prostitute, is shown as Cleopatra, suspending a large pearl over a goblet of wine. Cleopatra was said to have dissolved a pearl in wine before drinking it; similar tales circulated about Fisher, who was said to have eaten a hundred-pound banknote on a slice of buttered bread |
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