Press & Media
Divine Taste has been covered by media – mainstream media and blogosphere alike.
Anushruti’s blog promotes food that is wholesome and subtle in taste, while instilling feelings of well- being within the consumer. So, you will find recipes of tarts, pastas and risottos cooked without eggs, onions, garlic and wine. The 29- year- old MBA graduate describes the food as Sattvic: an attribute of purity descried in Ayurveda.
News India Times in August 2011:
Anushruti R.K.’s Divinetaste (divinetaste.com) has a section on ayurvedic cooking. There’s the Panaka or Lime Sherbet, a coolant for the Indian summer. The ingredients of these traditional dishes are said to balance the kappa (water), pitta (fire) and vata (wind) that, according to ayurveda, are the three main constituents of our body. Food, when eaten according to season and constitution can ward off diseases.
The Wall Street Journal Blog in December 2010:
Anushruti studied chemistry in school before she found her true calling in food. The woman behind the popular Mumbai-based blog Divine Taste now hopes to help readers feed their “body, mind, and soul.”
Grazia in December 2010 (hyperlinks added by us):
Going through the posts on Divine Taste is like flipping through a cookbook. Along with the photographs and meticulous recipe index, Anushruti brings you some forgotten flavours from your mother’s kitchen. Even though she confesses an inclination towards comfort food, her wide repertoire includes a raw mango and coconut soup, cucumber pickle, jackfruit biryani and jeera pulao – mind you everything here is vegetarian and eggless… Anushruti has also assembled an envious collection of recipes from her travles – there are some from quaint Indian villages to one from a chef in Frankfurt.
Why We Love It: Most recipes are invented in Anushruti’s kitchen, and are evidence of her inventive experimentation. Pumpkin pie, jackfruit biryani, and cauliflower green curry — it’s all veg (and eggless) here, but that does little to detract from this blog’s strong visual appeal (when not cooking, Anushruti is also a photographer). There are frequent posts about making the basics—jeera pulao, dal tadka, parathas—that makes this a great induction for budding cooks.
Divine Taste catalogues my quest for simple and exotic pleasures in food that lead to tremendous overall well-being. The recipe may come from any part of the world, the ingredients may be foreign, but the basic principles of my cooking remain the same. Simple healthful recipes, at times elaborate with occasional indulgences.