by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 13, 2026 | Food, Foodblog |
Shora pithe is an integral part of Bengal’s pithe–puli culture. Every winter, rice becomes the central ingredient of the kitchen, transformed through soaking, grinding, fermenting, and steaming. Pithe and puli are not single recipes but a system of seasonal cooking...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Dec 12, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
When you are always on the lookout for interesting recipes, you end up buying cookbooks. It’s been a thing for me since my college days. I still remember my first food book – Madhur Jaffrey’s A Taste of India. Soon after, I bought Sanjeev Kapoor’s...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Nov 17, 2025 | Food, Foodblog |
Who doesn’t love beet bhaja? It’s beetroot stir-fried. We Bengalis do, especially in winter, when the produce arrives fresh and deep red. Like the potato, beetroot was a foreign import but slowly became a local favourite. Beet bhaja is one of those pure...
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 Anindya | Aug 4, 2023 | Travel |
Before I start and get into details, let me make a confession – I hate taking kids to malls. My visits to malls have always been very very specific and goal driven. I normally visit a mall to catch up a movie, shopping or eat at a restaurant. Mall has never been...
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