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bpb Gift Hamper On TV!

bpb is happy to announce that we are the official gift partners for Zee Café’s celebrity talk show, Look Who’s Talking With Niranjan Iyengar, putting together the hamper for them filled with all our favourite treats! See below for the lovely list of vendors we featured in the goodie basket that went out to Karan Johar, Sonam Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Kajol and others! Tea Trunk Tea With an aim to educate tea lovers across the country about ‘tea as it should be’, Snigdha Manchanda’s teas come in flavours that are anything but usual, and most certainly lovely. We love her vanilla black tea, lemon green tea and the rose oolong flavours. Look out for the newly launched Marigold lemongrass tea...

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A taste of India now a few clicks away

My childhood memories of family trips have vivid images of my grandmother stuffing her oversized trunk with various foodstuffs wrapped in bed sheets or towels. Whether it was apples from Kashmir or mustard from Kolkata, she loved regional produce.

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Choose your cuppa coffee carefully: The Mint

Updated: Tue, May 28 2013. 02 47 PM IST A study published in May last year in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that frequent coffee drinkers live longer. Apparently, they have a lower risk of dying from diseases like diabetes, heart disease, etc., compared to those who drink little coffee or none at all—a good 10-15% lower. That’s great news for coffee enthusiasts. But when experts talk about coffee being good for health (it also helps bring down blood pressure), they are usually talking about a standard cup of coffee with little milk and very little sugar, if at all. They are definitely not talking about the supersized, sweet-as-the-devil mugs filled to the brim with milk foam and cream—what we down...

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Coffee Brewing session at Deliciae Patisserie, Bandra, Mumbai

 Details about the workshop:  Date: 18th May 2013 Time: 4.00pm to 7.00pm Venue: Deliciae Patisserie, Hotel Le Sutra, Union Park, Khar West, Mumbai     Entry Fees: Entry Free   About Deliciae Patisserie It is a quaint patisserie cum cafe situated in Bandra and Powai in Mumbai, started out of pure love for cooking and baking by Ms. Bunty Mahajan. This cozy café has a large assortment of exquisite cakes and sinfully delicious exotic desserts. After tasting grand success in Mumbai, Deliciae has now expanded its base to Pune where dessert lovers can savor in the taste of a variety of lip smacking cakes, pastries etc. Deliciae Patisserie is well known for its beautifully designed wedding and 3D cakes.     About TheIndianBeans.com The Indian Bean (theindianbean.com) travels...

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