Bengali Recipes

কুমড়ো ফুল ভাপা | Kumro Phool Bhapa I Experiences of a Gastronomad

ভাদ্রের মাঝামাঝি এক সকালে বাসে চেপে আমি আর বামমা পৌঁছলাম প্রদীপ কাকুর বাড়িতে। মানিককাকাও সঙ্গে ছিল। প্রদীপ ...

The heat is punishing to say the least. It’s early morning, yet the sun is at its repressive best. I toss ...

Why Grandma adores her bitters is incomprehensible to a nine year old me and an eleven year old Dada. We’ve ...

Age is catching up fast on Grandma. She no longer spends long hours in the soot -blackened ancient kitchen, ...

My princess must have inherited her love for fish from her Grandfather, Grandma would inevitably comment to ...

Grandma is in the kitchen, seated on her ancient pnire, the twin oonoons are still at work despite the late ...

What are those ? A curious me asks Didi, pointing to the soot-blackened earthenware that she, after minutes, ...

Thursdays are special. These are Lokkhibaar, days when Grandma and Maa offer prayers to the generous Goddess ...

Every year, on the last day of the Hindu calendar month of Ashwin , Grandma would cook a special dal. Eight ...

The doorbell rang. The man and I are in the garden, S engrossed in his email that has arrived overnight, I ...

I have sulked all morning. It’s unacceptable and unfair, I have rehearsed the fervent pitch in ...

I wake up to charcoal bruised heavens and the pitter-patter of rain this morning. It’s not ...