Bengali Summer Recipes

Kakrol Pur (Stuffed Teasel Gourd, Bengali Style)

Cut to half a decade back. It’s a charcoal-scarred sky this morning. Ominous cumulonimbus clouds reign the ...

Would a trip to Kolkata ever be complete without a ritualistic sojourn to the Maniktala Market ? Well, ...

Food in Cambodia and Thailand was divine, there was not one meal that offered us the slightest of an excuse ...

The ten odd days we spent in PhnomPenh and SiemReap were gorgeous to say the least. The awe-inspiring temple ...

It's been a prolific pumpkin season, Grandma and Maa have been patiently sending dispatches of gorgeous ...

I would know the tin even if I were blindfolded. Battered. Long past its prime. The Parle biscuit label, an ...

Come the rains and the backyard is a frenzied riot of verdant green. The papaya trees, just outside my ...

Ilish Shukto ? My cousin-in-law gawks at me in stunned disbelief. A pristine shimmering-silver ilish rests ...

I remember a rainy afternoon when Mashi cooked Ilish, an overnight catch from Kolaghat which the fishmonger ...

There's something romantic about a grey overcast morning. The sulking clouds. The drunken gales. The ...

I hate bittergourd. I throw up the most ingenious of tantrums the moment bittergourd turns up on my lunch ...

Eggplant, as fresh as can be, plucked this morning from the kitchen garden. Droplets of rain from the ...