by Anindya | Jun 24, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
In the last scene of Dwitiyo Purush – Pakrashi orders Chicken Chowmein and Chili Fish from a roadside vendor. That was with an elan and comfort, a satisfaction on his face after solving the biggest riddle of his life. Ordering a comfort food is spontaneous. Over...
by Anindya | Jun 19, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
The background to our Omelette Curry – It is an uphill task to get an Omelette curry made at home . If I may say – this was the first time it got made at home by Madhushree. I have always loved eggs. Show me one Bengali who doesn’t love Dim Bhaja? We...
by Anindya | Jun 16, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Bori and some pleasant memories of childhood My earliest memories of Bori is associated with bribe. At my mamar bari (nani ki ghar), there used to be a big terrace, where we would play round the year. Winter afternoons always meant playing on this terrace, oranges...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jun 11, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
I was recently clearing up media files on my phone and came across hundreds (I mean it) of wedding pictures with food and rituals. My cousin brother and Anindya’s cousin sister, both got married in February, though not to each other. The food pictures, albeit...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jun 8, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Food always has some kind of emotional connect. Therefore, everything we eat, reminds us of some memory or some thing from the past. It could be the taste of the food or the smell, or the way it was served. It could be just about anything and it always takes you back...
by Anindya | Jun 7, 2020 | Eating Out, Food |
When will the restaurants reopen after lockdown That has been the question which has been going on in everyone’s mind. With the restaurants reopening after lockdown, what will be dining scenario ? When I wrote this piece for a noble cause, I had predicted that...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 30, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Every region has it’s own potato curry. And each one is distinctly different from the other. Just in Bengali cuisine, we have alur dom, alur bati chorchori, alur dom made without onions and garlic, doi alu and much more. Bedmi poori is a very popular North...
by Anindya | May 28, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
I don’t know why but since childhood I didn’t like eating fruits. Baba always used to get seasonal fruits. He loved mangoes and was a great connoisseur of mangoes. The names himsagar, fojli, lyangra, totatapuri used to become household names in summers....
by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 27, 2020 | Eating Out |
I just received a couple of ‘Jamai Shashthi’ food promotions on my whatsapp. I have always, trust me, always wondered what was the hullabaloo about Jamai Shashthi. For all those who are non bongs, Jamai is son in law and jamai Shashthi is a day dedicated...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 26, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Were you aware of gluten intolerance a few years back? A decade back, no one thought twice about eating anything made of all purpose flour. I think maida runs in our DNA. we have grown up eating maida, especially Bengalis, who love their luchis and porota, all made in...