by Madhushree Basu Roy | Dec 6, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
We Bengalis love deep-fried food and most of our street food is deep-fried. Chicken cutlet is popular street food from Kolkata. Kolkata-style chicken cutlet is usually made with minced chicken. Kolkata style chicken cutlet Bengali chicken cutlet is made with minced...
by Anindya | Nov 23, 2021 | Eating Out |
There are many gems in my city yet some always remain to be discovered and experienced again. Discovery is a wrong word and will be condemned by many. How do you discover a place in the year 2021 which has been in existence since 1937? How do you call a place a gem...
by Anindya | Nov 22, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
One of my Mami (maternal aunt) is Sindhi. She is born and brought up in Kolkata, speaks Bengali fluently too. And she loves shukto and luchi more than any average Bengali. She never lets a chance go to wear her shankha-pola and go for a Sindoor khela. A lady with...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 19, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
Like I had written in my previous post on pui shaaker chorchori, Bengali recipe names are often based on their cooking techniques. And some of the names are quite funny too. Bandhakopir ghonto is one such funny name. I mean, why ‘ghonto’? I have always...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 8, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
Recently we had written about different kinds of chorchori on Instagram. It became a huge talking point on social media and everyone came out with their favourite chorchori recipes. One of them did point out that it was spelled incorrectly and that the right spelling...
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