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  • Bengali Taler Bora
    Bengali Food,  Recipes

    Taler Bora or Palm Fruit Nuggets, if I may call them so

    August 11, 2020 /

    When Janmashtami or the annual celebration of the birth of Lord Krishna is in full swing, these fried mini Taler Boras make their entry… sweet – bitter – crunchy entry! My attempt at another futile translation… Taler Bora. Palm Fruit Nuggets? The last time when I translated Phulko Luchi to Bengali puffed-up flour flatbread, I was sure that some of Luchi’s crispiness and fluffiness got lost in translation. So this time, can I simply say how I love these fried balls of deliciousness? Or how they might just become extinct, washed away by the more popular fritters and branded nuggets? Or shall I add to the already existing confusion – how will…

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    Payesh or Rice Pudding For My Birthday | Power of Gratitude Messages

    March 25, 2015
    Mashed Potato Bengali Style/ Aloo Bhaaté

    Mashed Potato Bengali Style/ Aloo Bhaaté

    April 4, 2012

    Shorshe Bata Maach – Mustard Salmon In This Case | A Detour From Thailand To Wish Shubho Noboborsho!

    April 15, 2013
  • Kolkata,  Recipes

    Pudding of Love | Mum-In-Law’s Special Caramel Custard

    March 16, 2015 /

    Again a folder full of unpublished drafts – each draft vying for equal attention. How could this delicious wonder remained lying in the folder – all because Mum-in-law wasn’t sure about the proportions of this recipe. Like most recipes of hers. And like most mums of her generations. No ifs and buts, no guessing… the measurements have to be perfect. And hence, the perfect recipe for a perfect pudding, oozing out love – the motherly love. The love that went into the making of her epic pickles and the same love that went into the hours of standing and finally goading the neighborhood Phuchkawala for the recipe of the perfect…

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    October 5, 2014

    Living By The Water With Sunset As Prop – Kolkata & the Ganges

    January 10, 2012
  • Kolkata,  Travel

    A Riot of Colours | Kolkata Kaleidoscope

    March 6, 2015 /

    Holi… a riot of colours. It doesn’t have to be Holi to bring on a riot of colours in the city which has raised me. Kolkata. Perpetually on a roller coaster. Perpetually on a riot of colours. Millions of colourful memories occupying gigabytes of memories in the computer. Hundreds of unwritten posts. It is impossible to capture the city in all it’s essence but the images that constantly haunt me are the images from it’s streets, markets, strong faiths (make shift temple under a banyan tree, or in the dashboard of a taxi), decadent buildings, people, the stiff nosed club culture… a riot of colours… and the evening ice lolly…

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    Rasgulla or Rôshogolla - perhaps the most famous of Bengali Sweets

    Rôshogolla or Rasgulla – Bengali’s Own Sweet

    April 16, 2012
    Momos in Tiretti Bazar - The Last Remnants of dwindling Chinese migrants in Kolkata

    Momos in Tiretti Bazar | The Last Chinese Remnants Of Kolkata!

    July 17, 2012

    Pudding of Love | Mum-In-Law’s Special Caramel Custard

    March 16, 2015
  • Kolkata

    Flurys in Kolkata | The Legend Still Continues in Park Street

    August 2, 2014 /

    Flurys in Kolkata is legendary. The tearoom founded by the Swiss couple Mr and Mrs J Flurys in 1927 is still one of the most fashionable Park Street addresses.

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    Finally, Icecream Rasgulla & Blueberry Sauce

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    March 8, 2012

    Notun Gurer Payesh/Traditional Bengali Rice Pudding | Remembering My Dida

    May 30, 2012
  • Kolkata,  Travel

    Ramadan Food Trail With Calcutta Walks | As The Muezzin Calls

    July 29, 2014 /

    Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. ∼Rumi ‘Why do you need to go on a food tour in Kolkata with a guide?’ My friends and family members were pretty baffled. I, who have been going around each and every lane, bylane, market, sweet shop, food kiosk, restaurant in Kolkata – with my Nikon, smartphone and the Z-Sisters in tow. Well that’s true. But Kolkata being Kolkata – the overstimulated kaleidoscope that it is, the melting pot of culture, heritage and history that it is, one needs a guide… an explorer rather, who can guide you through the exploration of the…

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  • Kolkata

    Scoop In Outram Ghat | Yesss, It Still Exists!

    July 15, 2014 /

    A comment left on my Instagram post by my cousin sis who had been my closest friend during my childhood, left me in utter confusion… ‘Does Scoop still exist in Kolkata? Khoj korish toh/do check!’ The referred scoop is not an ordinary scoop of ice cream or a new piece of gossip doing the media round, but a very special ice cream parlour by the Ganges. Visiting Scoop had been a luxury, a special destination for a very special treat that required a lot of saving up. After all, Rs 25 spent on an ice cream sundae from a meager pocket money of Rs 50/week didn’t come cheap. And what…

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    July 11, 2012
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    Purple Haze Yoghurt With Purple M&Ms

    March 24, 2012
    Khichuri & Kolkata Soaked Wet In rains

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    August 16, 2012
  • Bengali Food,  Video

    Opening Up My Bengali Kitchen For Dima Sharif

    July 9, 2014 /

    Ramadan Kareem! As I leave Dubai for the summers and settle down in Kolkata for almost two months (my summer hibernation as I like to call it, and probably for a lot of Dubai expats as well), I am overcome with tremendous guilt. Guilt for leaving my adopted home for far too long and also the guilt for feeling excited and longing to update my nerves and soul on what I might have missed out in Kolkata in the last two years… and in effect cheating my beloved Dubai! Although, I have left the shores of Bengal for long, Bengal hasn’t left me. The more I have tried to be…

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