by Anindya | Jan 25, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
Is Dal the most overlooked and undermined player in the team of food on our dining table? Most often, like a Goal keeper in football or the wicket keeper in cricket, Indian meal is incomplete without dal. Yet it never becomes a centre of attraction for Bengali’s...
by Anindya | Jan 15, 2018 | Food, Foodblog |
I have never been a dessert fan while growing up. Pithe and Puli was definitely not something that I would crave. My neighbourhood in Bandel and as well as in Chandannagore, had many families and Bangal families (the ones having their roots in erstwhile Bangladesh),...
by Anindya | Dec 11, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
This is one of the strangest winters possible in Kolkata. First, there was a steep fall in temperature somewhere in the second week of November. Then again, the mercury soared and untimely rainfall for the last few days. As someone said, it’s a deliberation to...
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 | Oct 12, 2017 | Food, Foodblog |
There are times when you don’t feel like doing anything. You just want to be in a state of limbo. Binge-watch everything that you have missed out on TV and Netflix. Or eat whatever junk comes your way. And in general, enjoy the status of doing nothing except for...