Nowadays everybody is used to ordering food from restaurants whenever they find less time to cook or somebody comes over. Food cooked at home kitchens or homemade food though is a healthier alternative to this and is now available easily. Quality & handpicked Ingredients Food prepared at home kitchen uses quality ingredients from shops known…
Saag – My Punjabi Connection
Come winters,it’s time for various regional specials to come forth. Food that is best enjoyed piping hot, served with dollops of butter n lots of love. Some of us pick up making these from our mothers, keeping in mind the small antidotes that add to the taste and others have to depend on generous friends…
An Ode to Nolen Gur
By Padmini Sinha | January 10, 2022 There’s magic in the air in Bengal during the brief winter months of December and January and one of the reasons is the appearance of the Star – NOLEN GUR. The sap of the Date(Khejur) Palm Tree is extracted very skillfully so as not to damage the tree…
Mishti memories
Uttam Rao I December 21, 2021 Pretenders! That is what I will call any category of food that poses to be sweets but is not BENGALI SWEETS! To me that category is taken, that battle is over! Motichur, pedha, kalakand and other “pretenders” can stand by respectfully and pay homage. Bengali sweets stand-alone, so bow…
Reconnecting with everyday Bengali food
Suprita Sarkar | September 20th, 2021 I grew up in Jamshedpur, a small town in Jharkhand. For its small size, Jamshedpur was very cosmopolitan. Maybe because the town attracted top talent from all over the country for the steel and automotive companies based there. It was commonplace (and almost expected) to have neighbours from different…
Food For My Soul – Khichdi
Pranjal Date | September 5th, 2021 Which is that one dish that you used to run away from as a child but are now drawn to time and again as a grown-up? Well, there could be quite a few of them depending on which region you come from! But one surely is the most common...
Home-cooked Bengali food- taste that I have grown up on
Tuhin Kar| September 1, 2021 What do I most remember when I think of home-cooked food? If anyone were to ask me that today, I might find it difficult to answer, mainly because I had such mixed feelings about home-cooked food, growing up as I was, a Bengali outside Bengal. What that essentially meant was,...