by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 9, 2021 | Food, Foodblog |
Kolkata winter has become quite strange for the last couple of years. All of December, it is just pleasant barring the last week. It’s almost like the weather wants us to enjoy Christmas and New Year’s eve to the fullest. And then suddenly, it gets quite...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Jan 14, 2020 | Food, Foodblog |
Like most Bengalis, I grew up eating pithe puli during Poush Sankranti. Till such time I was in Port Blair, my mother and my aunts made limited delicacies on sankranti and afterwards. It was only when I got back to Kolkata in 1992, that I saw my grandmother, going all...
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),...