Creating masterpieces with everyday ingredients.
If it is possible to gather all the Bengalis in the world at one place, and enquire about their favourite dal, I am sure you will hardly find anyone answering ‘Mushur Dal’ or ‘Masoor Dal’. Strange it is. As you will also hardly find any Bengali, who has not grown up on Mushur Dal with …
Chorchori, not sure who invented the word, but so far it looks like one of the most flexible culinary word, atleast I have come across in my mother tongue ‘Bengali’. Although the internet provides us with lots of variation when it comes to defining Chorchori, and also given the luck of being born in a …
Muri Ghonto. One of the most popular dish of Bengal, and ofcourse the undisputable leader in popularity, when it comes to any dish containing fish head as the main ingredient. Although not completely sure, but probably this is the popularity and the richness of the dish, which has also made me save this dish for …
Gulab Jamun. As I sweep away to the world of imagination, where the brown balls soaked in sugar syrup goes inside my mouth, and as I bite into this and the sweet muslin like feeling slowly melts in my tongue, I almost realise the state of nirvana and along with it realise that the sinful …
‘Breakfast’, the word itself denotes the deep meaning lying behind, which is ‘breaking fast’. Hence, rightly said, it is the most important meal of the day. Although it is hard to believe, but among meals, it is breakfast which mostly determines our health condition. A good and balanced breakfast is one of the main reasons …
The word ‘Dhoka’, which means cheating in Hindi and Bengali, surprisingly has a strong association with food. I have no clue why, but there are two famous food dishes in Bengali cuisine, which have the word ‘Dhoka’ in them. One is ‘Dhokar Dalna’, where the word in concern ‘Dhoka’, is made with chana dal or …
Spices. An important source not only to enhance the flavour and palatability of food, but also an important ingredient to improve the taste, aroma and most importantly the medicinal value of food. This is probably the reason that human civilization is using spices in many forms since the inception of civilization itself, and is continuing …
They say, in India, just like language, the cuisine changes in every few kilometres. Assuming if this analysis is atleast 20 years old, and with the growth in population in these 20 years, by now the taste and cuisine in our country should change in every centimetre😉. Probably an exaggeration, but the fact of growing …
Finally, the time has arrived when we are reluctantly letting go the year, which we welcomed a year back with much enthusiasm, and are slowly getting used to the change in calendar dates, when we accidently glance upon our phone screen or the new calendar hung on the wall. Although the last year was little …
They say, ‘travelling shapes your personality’. Even though not intentionally, but owing to the reasons which cannot be ignored and are considered important in life, like my father’s transferable job, higher studies and marriage, I am unable to identify myself with any one particular place. And, as I have mentioned earlier too, I owe these …
