Bengali Food Photography

Radhaballavi | Radhaballabhi and Aloor Dum

I am all of six, maybe seven. Yet the kitchen draws me like a magnet. My best times are when I am in the ...

The milk sits on the gas stove. Impatiently. I stir the pot occasionally. To pacify the rebellions ...

As I potter around in the kitchen this morning, making my luchi dough and stirring my pot of narkel diye ...

I sit ruminating this morning, thinking of the origins of Bengali cuisine and the influences that have shaped ...

As soon as my eyes rest on the plump prawns fresh from the Bay this rain-blessed cloud-cloaked overcast ...

The bird sits on the gas stove, stewing merrily in yogurt perfumed with a melange of spices. A delicious ...

Some fresh chana, a piquant zing of ground mustard, an euphoria of grated coconut, a scorching violence of ...

The dekchi of milk, golden yellow, sits patiently on the mud oven. The first rays of the nascent sun, yet ...

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Another one of those family favorites for a lazy Sunday lunch. Tear-jerking spicy, yet so delectable that you ...

What other than food to bring back waves of nostalgia !! That taste of a lamb curry I had many winters back ...

Sheem Pur, a family favorite from those days gone by - the humble sheem (flat beans) stuffed with the ...