by Madhushree Basu Roy | Sep 29, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Kolkata Style Chowmein tastes like memory. In our Pandel’er Pet Pujo series, we’ve walked from phuchka to chicken roll, phuchkawala alur dom, chow chow, and fish fry. Today it’s egg chowmein, the plate you’d grab on the way home, the one that made a long day better....
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Sep 29, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Durga Puja is the time when Bangalis just go berserk in planning for their pet-pujo. For the uninitiated, pet-pujo stands for worship of the stomach, or basically hunger. So we mostly have our meals planned out. Ashtami lunch will be khichuri bhog. Shashti breakfast...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jul 28, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Every year, we work on recipes for a national brand. Soya chunks are always on the list. And every year, I struggle with ideas. It’s not the easiest ingredient. This time, it was pouring outside. I was craving chicken stew. Something warm, light and comforting....
by Anindya | Jan 24, 2022 | Food, Foodblog |
Most often, we tend to search for the best outside the daily normal? In the process, we tend to forget the beauty in the simplest things around us. It needs a trigger (can be from anyone, anywhere) and then there is no looking back. Ask me to cite one reason –...
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...
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