Dehradun, Sept. 13 -- Culinary Chronicles

Each time I play with fish, a particular flavour echoes that I am unable to replicate.

Going down memory lane, sometime in 1979 when I was around four years old, piscine savours charmed my palate at Whispering Windows in Mussoorie. A restaurant of good old classic charm!

The memory of a mammoth has its own pros and cons. Incidents, events, people and conversations held decades ago appear recent.

Invited by the late Mrs DP Singh, a prominent figure of the hills and owner of this property, for high tea, I held the fingers of my parents and walked in as a guest in the most fashionable manner. Drawing all the attention and getting a pseudo feel of not being less than a celebrity.

Reluctantly on t...