Feb 07 Featured Blog: Route 79

Featured Blog of the week: Route 79 - Reflections on a bus journey home

This blog belongs to a Punjabi couple living in the UK, and how they try to retain semblances of their Indian heritage, mainly through food and contacts with other displaced Indians all over the globe.

The best things about this blog:

1. Food galore

Pan right and you will see a looooong column with a list of recipes from the humble aloo gobi to the tantalising Rogan Ghosh. They have recipes that span the entire Indian continent. And every recipe comes with clear and concise pictorial instructions, so even if you have never been in a kitchen, you can follow along quite easily without burning the kitchen down. If you, like me, love to eat, but don't have the cooking thing together, then you can just drool over the pictures.

2. Global Recognition

They were voted in the Weblog Awards 2006 in the best UK blog category. And the only Asian/ British blog to be voted in.

3. Nitty Gritty

All the little tidbits of gossip, irritation and joys about living in a foreign country (foreign to us, anyway). From posts as mundane as queueing for the ATM to murder and mystery. There is also a record of all the kitsch Indian culture that Britain has acquired along with her colonial migrants, like this bus.

4. The Astounding Blogroll

Route 79 is apparently linked to every Indian blogger in the UK, so when you finally get past the 1000+ posts in this blog, you won’t run out of reading material, and you can just start all over again with your favourites.

The Featured Blog of the Month series will be an ongoing one helmed by the "recently won a digicam in my company D n D" Nal and the link will be placed on the sidebar under the column, Nal: The N Word, your blogroll for all things worth our stamp of KLKuality.