The family patriarch Nitai Chandra Nandan started the Durga Pujo in his premises in the year 1968, a ...
Bengali Mishti Recipes
Shibpur RoyChowdhury Barir Kolar Borar Payesh
Every bonedi barir Durga Pujo has a story to tell, the Durga Pujo in Shibpur RoyChowdhury family, considered ...
Taler Bora (Ripe Palmyra/Sugar Palm Fritters)
It poured like never before. Lightning serpents zigzagged across the charcoal-scarred sky. Peals of deafening ...
Gajorer Doodpuli (Doodhpuli with Carrot Stuffing)
Has it ever happened, you are in the midst of cooking, when to utter dismay and indescribable frustration, ...
Taler Pitha
There’s a melancholy despair about Bijoya Doshomi. It’s meant to be a day of festivities and celebration, ...
Nolen Gurer Sandesh | Sondesh| Norom Paker Sandesh
Grandma carefully pulls out an old Britannia tin, the colours faded with age, the surface dimpled having ...
Atar Payesh (Sitaphal Kheer / Custard Apple Pudding)
A disciplined row of custard apples rests on my kitchen counter. Luscious and plump, from a farm, not far ...
Thakurbarir Mango Pudding
Who would have ever imagined a rustic Pirali Brahmin girl, from a nondescript village in far-flung Jessore, ...
Koraishutir Sandesh (Cottage Cheese and Green Peas Fudge)
A honey sunshine morning. A verdant green hillock of shelled pea pods stands in front of Didi, fatigued ...
Kheer Komola | Komola Payesh | (Milk Pudding with Oranges)
I yield to temptation yet again this honey-mellow winter morning. Of cooking with oranges. Plump luscious ...
Nolen Gurer Bhapa Sandesh (Steamed Cottage Cheese Fudge with Date Palm Jaggery)
What's winter without nolen gur ? Grandma would ruminate. I am in my kitchen, bathed in streaks of golden ...
Bhapa Pitha | Tekeli Pitha | Keteli Pitha (Steamed Rice Cakes with Coconut and Jaggery)
It's Makar Sankranti and my kitchen is a cauldron of furious activity. The chirer doodhpuli and sujir ...












