by Anindya | Dec 7, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
I was slightly confused about how to translate ‘Dum’ to English. This is all about Bengali Murgir Dum or Bengali style slow-cooked chicken curry. I referred to who else but Colleen Taylor Sen and her book History of Food In India. Quoting her –...
by Anindya | Jan 30, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
Very rarely we get confused over a dish and what to name it. We initially thought of calling this bhapa chorchori but then after a discussion with Pritha Sen, the eminent food researcher, it was clear that it can be called anything but chorchori. In Pritha di’s...
by Anindya | Dec 29, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
When we were young, there used to be a very popular TV show called ‘The World this week’ and then every last Friday of the year, there used to be ‘The World this week year end special’ .Curling up inside quilts, we used to eagerly wait for the...
by Anindya | May 9, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
What is the tradition of Poila Boishakh or Bengali New year? Other than a few that I remember from my childhood, the pertinent question that needs to be asked is- what is the food tradition of Poila Boishakh? Different houses will have different traditions which have...
by Anindya | Apr 4, 2017 | Eating Out, Food, Foodblog |
Let’s say you are planning to start a Bengali restaurant What are the things that come to your mind when you start planning the menu? Shukto (quintessentially Bong vegetarian dish made with bitter guard and other vegetables), Alu posto (potatoes with poppy seed...