Come the rains and the backyard is a frenzied riot of verdant green. The papaya trees, just outside my ...
Bengali Food Photography
Aloo Aru Bengena Pitika (Mashed Potatoes and Roasted Eggplant Mash, Assamese Style)
A friend of mine and I decide to catch up over lunch. It's over a decade that she had been out of the ...
Anarosh Ilish (Hilsa with Pineapple)
Manikkaka looks up anxiously at the charcoal-scarred sky. It is barely nine am this June morning, the first ...
Ilish Shukto (Hilsa with a Medley of Vegetables)
Ilish Shukto ? My cousin-in-law gawks at me in stunned disbelief. A pristine shimmering-silver ilish rests ...
Aam Bhindi Shorshe Ilish (Hilsa with Okra, Green Mangoes and Mustard)
I remember a rainy afternoon when Mashi cooked Ilish, an overnight catch from Kolaghat which the fishmonger ...
Tangra Maachher Chorchori (Tangra Maach Cooked with a Medley of Vegetables)
I wake up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window pane. A grey morning. A truant sun playing ...
Doodh Pabda (Pabda with Milk)
There's something romantic about a grey overcast morning. The sulking clouds. The drunken gales. The ...
Dhakai Murgi Khichuri (Chicken Khichdi, Dhaka Style)
Today is Eid-Al-Fitr, the day which marks the end of the holy month of Ramdan, a day synonymous with ...
Shahi Beguni (Special Eggplant Fritters)
It's wistful nostalgia for me on this auspicious day of Rathyatra, the chariot festival when the Lord and his ...
Jhinge Shukto (Ridgegourd and Bittergourd Curry)
I hate bittergourd. I throw up the most ingenious of tantrums the moment bittergourd turns up on my lunch ...
Aam Begun (Eggplant with Green Mango)
Eggplant, as fresh as can be, plucked this morning from the kitchen garden. Droplets of rain from the ...
Lebu Lonka Murgi (Chicken with Gondhoraj Lebu and Green Chillies)
Grandma's princess is glum this morning. Incarcerated indoors, thanks to the merciless heat of a tyrannical ...












