Bengali Food Photography

Chirer Pulao, Bengali style

Evening descends on hushed tiptoes. Surreptitiously. Crimson and vermilion smother the last vestiges of blue ...

The dekchi sits snugly on the fire. Her lid sealed firmly by flour dough. A few lazy charcoal pieces idle on ...

The sizzling sun has disappeared behind a grey veil of ominous nimbus. There's a lull. An uncanny calm. I ...

Today is Eid-Al-Fitr, the day which marks the end of the holy month of Ramdan, a day synonymous with ...

A Bengali meal is never complete without tomato chutney- a symphony of fresh tomatoes, plump raisins, ...

The unmistakable nutty scent draws me, just awaken by the cacophony of birds in the backyard trees, to the ...

This is the story of a heady romance between fragrant rice and smashed fish head. (Smashed fish head, yes, ...

The heady fragrance of Gobindobhog, the gorgeous golden of earthy turmeric, an overindulgence of sinful ...

Making mustard paste at home was an elaborate ritual. Grandma, an accomplished cook with an obsessive ...

It's not an everyday combination. And I must confess that when my eyes rested on this ancient Bengali ...

This is the story of my delectable Narkel er Payesh, the heady romance of coconut and milk that shall leave ...

We Bengalis love fish head. Period. No celebratory lunch is ever complete without the pompous ...