by Anindya | Jul 13, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
Noted food writer and critic, Vir Sanghvi in his recent article has written that if he ever opened a restaurant based on Aloo or Potato dishes only, it will be called Batata Bhavan. If one skims through the list of dishes mentioned, there are 4 from Kolkata which...
by Anindya | Jun 28, 2018 | Eating Out, Food |
When Shim shim happened – Doma di mentioned something big is coming up and that too at Middleton street where The Blue Poppy is already there. We discovered Blue Poppy just like that. Hard to place my finger on the exact date – perhaps from 2014. Quick...
by Anindya | Jun 25, 2018 | Travel |
We were a group of travel bloggers travelling to Uttarakhand and if you are in Uttarakhand, then the trek to Yamunotri is a must. I was skeptical in the beginning as I had never done any trekking before. But this year, as you will recollect from my earlier blog, I had...
by Anindya | Jun 24, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
Anyone who has been through the grind of a training at a kitchen from a basic level whether in films or in real life, would tell you one story – how their life began with peeling of skins, be it potato or of onion. The toughest one in any kitchen, home or any...
by Anindya | Jun 21, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
It’s not necessary food always need to tickle the sweet memory spots. I cooked mutton Rogan Josh after almost 8 years. The last time I made this, I was 10 kg lighter, CPI (M) was still in power in West Bengal and a certain gentleman called Virat Kohli was still...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jun 16, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
When I was a kid, ‘phoren’ meant a huge deal for me, escpeaily since I grew up in Port Blair, cut off from the ‘mainland’ in every which way. Yes, we did call the rest of India ‘mainland’, perhaps in Port Blair people still refer to...
by Anindya | Jun 14, 2018 | India, Travel, Travelogues, Uttarakhand |
Syanachatti forms an important juncture for moving ahead towards Yamunotri and most of the times people halt here and go to Yamunotri. We reached here after a day long journey and went ahead to Raja Chatti to see Narad falls and then came back to Syanachatti for a...
by Anindya | Jun 10, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
Blame it on my Ghoti upbringing. My ancestral home was in Bardhaman, my mother had her roots in Bankura. More than a feeling of apartheid towards the people from Bangladesh (who actually chose to settle in this part of the country), it was a disconnect with...
by Anindya | Jun 9, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
When I used to work at Shoppers Stop Kolkata as the Unit Head HR, I had to take rounds across the store more than often to do several manpower audits. There was one section where I always used to see a deep sense of belongingness, thinking, visualizing and heavy duty...
by Anindya | May 30, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
Shami kebab and Chota peg, that was what most of the evenings used to be for Kayasths – Well known Food writer and one of the faces behind popularising Kayastha Khatirdari / Kayasth food in India, Anoothi Vishal said with a slight smile. We were at Kayasth...
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