The Cocktail Cage

The Cocktail Cage of Mowgli really trapped me ideologically for a while. The truth is on the streets and in the homes of India, people do not drink alcohol with their food. I’m not saying they are not drinkers, no sir. My father and his peers would happily pickle themselves with Johnnie Walker Black Label and my mother struggles to walk past Merlot, but with their food, absolutely not. This is one of the reasons that I refused to have an Indian beer on the menu. There is no such thing. We drink water with our meals, not beer. Alcoholic drinks irritate the palate that is already being assaulted by spices and chilli acids.