India, Jan. 30 -- Do you have a favourite one dish meal? If that term sounds a little confusing, let me explain. All over the West, 'one-pot meals' are the rage. The name sounds less interesting when you realise that it refers mainly to stews. So, the Brits will use it for such dishes as a Lancashire Hotpot, which is a mutton-and-potato stew. The French will call a cassoulet (beans with goose, sausage, pork etc) or Boeuf Bourguignon (beef braised in red wine with mushrooms and onions) one-pot meals. And so on.

Oddly enough, the Italians make less of one-pot meals, though lasagne is the king of such meals as, I would imagine, are many other pasta dishes. Likewise with risotto, which can be a meal in itself. (And what about pizza?) The dif...