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 | Apr 7, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining ? – Paul Kalanithi, When breath comes Air There are some lines which you read once in a great prose or a book or a write up and then there are some lines like above, which comes,...
by Anindya | Jul 10, 2015 | Eating Out, Food |
When its monsoon it has to be hilsha or Ilish as popularly called in the Eastern part of the country . Taj Gateway Kolkata presents Hilsha festival – where handpicked dishes from West Bengal and Bangladesh with some continental variation made the lunch a memorable experience
by Anindya | Feb 16, 2023 | Food, Foodblog |
Machh Bhat – Fish and rice – isn’t it a typical stereotype among Bengalis? It is assumed that Bengalis eat fish every day and that is macher jhol. Yes, we do eat every day but the variety of preparations wrt to fish and the varieties of fish makes...
by Anindya | Sep 27, 2021 | Eating Out, Food, Foodblog |
Dada, you are from Kolkata? Bhalo achhi? Ami tomake Bhalobashe .. Machhi Bhat khabe? When loosely translated these are the most common welcome dialogues you will hear outside Kolkata trying to get close with you. Bengalis love their food and fish is inevitably the...