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Disclaimer: This article doesn't mean to trivialize any real-life event and does not intend to offend victims of the Holocaust, atomic bombs and the men who died in the war. Read only if you wouldn’t get easily offended. 1939-1945 was a truly remarkable period in the history of mankind. Chefs and Gourmets were making all the news as the world continued to get hungrier. Mealtime wasn't a routine dining room affair anymore. It was a full-scale war. The world was bursting with gluttony and a few men chose to take advantage. In 1933, Adolf Hitler of Germany became a celebrity chef and threw a grand party only for Germans. It came to be known as the Nazi Party. He loved all food and drink, except the juice. He despised the juice because every time he would drink some, the glass would slip, leaving the liquid dripping from his iconic moustache. And he didn't like that. That's when he gave the order to his countrymen - kill all the juice! In a cruel an...

In Mumbai it’s ‘Pav Bhaji’, in Delhi it’s ‘Kulcha-Chhole’. In New York it’s ‘Cheesecake’ and in Philadelphia it’s a ‘Cheesesteak’. Seemingly, every great city has it’s Food rivalries and every local has his/her favourite. How is anyone  supposed to decide where to eat Pizza in Chicago when a simple Google search yields more than 81,300 pizza places! Or the fact that every corner shop claims to be “The Original” yet you walk down two blocks and you find- yet again, another “The Original”. June 7 was celebrated  the ‘National Doughnut Day’ in the US with many bakeries offering free doughnuts to customers. This food holiday gave rise to a long standing debate: which is the better doughnut, yeasted or cake? The pros and cons are that the yeast doughnuts are light and airy with a pleasant squish. They are so delicate that you can eat about six or eight of them before your brain registers that you’re full (perhaps too full). Cake doughnuts on the other hand are crumbly and b...