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If the first wave of popularizing wine culture was wine tasting and pairing and the endless talk around it, the second is cooking with it. Since, wine continues to be a buzzy, distant terrain for Indians – more terminology than actual rolling around your tongue – cooking with wine may well hit a ‘note’ closer home because it is about doing it yourself in the unaffected comfort of your kitchen.

But that's not exactly why Pernod Ricard’s Nine Hills Wines hit upon the idea of popularizing cooking with wine.

Food connoisseur Karen Anand's Mumbai installment of the Pune Farmers' Market was everything a Sunday outing ought to be. Winter light, canopied expanse, lots of wine and food. You could perch yourself on a high chair, sit with friends around a round table, lounge around on a cane mat or simply sprawl out on the grass. So unlike any Mumbai event. That could explain the turnout at the far-flung venue, The Westin Mumbai Garden City Hotel at Goregaon. Find all photos in our Facebook album here.

After getting eliminated in final week of MasterChef Australia, Rishi Desai's indisputable talents in the kitchen - aided by his chocolate boy looks - has earned him a fan following not only Down Under but also back in India, from where this Kolhapuri chemical engineer originally hails.

So it was only natural that his cooking demonstration at Godrej Nature's Basket in Bandra last week would be populated by a predominantly female audience who had the pleasure of watching Rishi recreate some of the magic that made him a strong contender in the MasterChef kitchen.

Published by DK India and promoted by Penguin India, the illustration-heavy book, said Khanna, is specifically designed so that children can learn to get inventive with ingredients they find at home.

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Four courses at four different restaurants and lots of wine. That was the menu for the day at Sula Wine Rides, a Sula Vineyards sponsored event for a few of Mumbai’s food bloggers, conducted by Sovna Puri, Sula’s Head Tastings, Mumbai.