by Anindya | Apr 10, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
Dal is an integrated part of a Bengali meal. There is a family story which goes like this – One of my Mamis when recently got married and came to her in Laws place (my mamar bari), she just could not take the eating pattern of her husband. My mama’s fault...
by Anindya | Mar 31, 2018 | Uncategorized |
We have to start on a flashback for this story. The stage is like Mid 80’s to 90’s Bengali wedding reception where buffet was still not popular and one used to get a menu card which would boast about the line up for the meal just as they display the...
by Anindya | Oct 24, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
How did we first taste Shapla Chingri? It will not be exaggerating to say that this is the invention of the season at our dinner table. The fact that water lilly stem could be used for a recipe and that too with small shrimps, was unimaginable. My mother in law first...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | May 20, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
As Indians, we have all grown up with spices in our lives- in our day to day cooking and sometimes, even for medicinal uses. Food without spices are not even considered edible and it need not be a whole medley of spices, even a single spice can sometime elevate any...
by Anindya | Dec 14, 2016 | Eating Out, Food, Foodblog |
A few days back, I started this discussion in facebook – Which one is the first Bengali fine dining restaurant in India? Yes, I asked in India as the purpose of asking was to figure out who had the guts to take the plunge. About a couple of decades back, Bengali...
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