Just a couple of days before I head back home, Maa and I are at our local vegetable market and that ...
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Koraishutir Patishapta (Savoury Crepes with Spicy Green Peas Stuffing)
The walk shall be long, Bapi cautions, are you sure you want to walk all the way ? I nod in ...
Chingri diye Kolai Dal (Urad Dal with Shrimps)
One autumn evening, Bapi brings home a pair of binoculars. A childhood friend of his had been ...
Lonka Pora Rui /Katla (Rohu / Katla with Charred Red Chilli Paste)
It’s a sultry summer morning, the ancient fan whirring above struggles to provide any respite from ...
Ilish Chirer Jhol (Hilsa Curry with Fried Flattened Rice)
The shrill of the phone punctuates the idyllic silence of a lazy afternoon. I am immersed in a ...
Moong Phulkopir Ghonto (Caulifower and Moong Dal Dry Curry)
It’s a gorgeous autumn morning. The nimbus clouds that had usurped the heavens above and scarred ...
Uchche diye Maacher Dim (Bittergourd and Fish Roe Stir Fry)
Kakimoni was an angel. She lived a few houses away from us down the flaming gulmohor-crowned ...
Kakrol Pur (Stuffed Teasel Gourd, Bengali Style)
Cut to half a decade back. It’s a charcoal-scarred sky this morning. Ominous cumulonimbus clouds ...
Pabda Hingi (Pabda with Asafoetida)
Would a trip to Kolkata ever be complete without a ritualistic sojourn to the Maniktala Market ...
Potol Rosha (Parwal in Tomato-Ginger and Milk Curry, Bengali Style)
Food in Cambodia and Thailand was divine, there was not one meal that offered us the slightest of an ...
Baked Phulkopir Singara (Baked Cauliflower Samosa)
Sunday afternoons were the only time Bapi managed some respite from his otherwise hectic, often ...
Boal Maacher Dom
It’s not everyday that my fishmonger calls to inform that he’s got some gorgeous boal maach. And ...