Kamla's Blog posts on ‘Food’

By Kamla Bhatt • Aug 1st, 2008 • Category: Food, Ideas

You have heard of carbon footprint. Have you by any chance heard of water footprint?
“The water footprint of a nation shows the total volume of water that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the inhabitants of the nation,” according to waterfootprint.org. For instance, it takes 140 liters to produce 1 cup […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Entrepreneur Interviews, Food, India, Interviews, People, Travel

Mint & Mustard opened last year in Cardiff, Wales and is headed by Anand Joseph George, a truly gifted chef. The restaurant has got some great review and recently  won the annual South Asian Chef competition in Wales and will represent at the national level.
My husband and I first met George in Jamavar, the Indian […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Feb 24th, 2008 • Category: Books, Movies, Music, Televison, Bombay/Mumbai, Food, Google, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom India, Social Media, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, User Generated Content, Video

In this Sunday’s column of TechLife in Financial Express I spoke about the power of word of mouth marketing. An old marketing concept, how has word of mouth marketing morphed in this tech savvy world filled with gadgets, gizmos, blogs, video blogs, online reviews etc?
Here is the link to the article in Financial Express.
I did […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Nov 3rd, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Business, Diaspora, Events, Food, Global Voices, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Mobile, Podcast, Social Media, Technology, Web 2.0

Bangalore is the focus of this post. Bangalore is capital of the southern state of Karnataka and  is often referred to as the Silicon Valley of India.  Once known as the “garden city” of India, the city has morphed into a sprawling metropolis with poor infrastructure and a government that seems to change every few months. A few […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 28th, 2007 • Category: Bombay/Mumbai, Diaspora, Food, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, User Generated Content, YouTube Videos

Do you still reach out to your cookbooks or go online to look up a recipe? Ever wondered what is cooking online? What are food bloggers and video bloggers talking about? Food is the topic of conversation in this Sunday’s Financial Express column: Click To Be A Curry King.
This article was originally published in Financial […]



By Kamla Bhatt • Oct 14th, 2007 • Category: Bangalore, Entrepreneur Interviews, Food, Ideas, India, Internet and Telecom, Mobile, Social Media, TechLife - Financial Express, Technology, Web 2.0

Here is this week’s Financial Express column in TechLife.
Have you ever wondered where and how some nifty applications and widgets originate and how they reach us? How does it happen? Is there a structured way of innovating and creasing these applications? Or, is this done in a fun-filled environment with no constraints except to create […]