Bengali Winter Recipes

Palo Pitha | Palo Pithe | Chandankath Pitha

As Sankranti draws near, a new wave of gripping cold descends on our sleepy hamlet of ...

Do remember to get my khejur knata, Grandma reminds Bapi as he takes the last sip of tea from the bone-china ...

It’s the afternoon before Sankranti. The house is a cauldron of frenzied activity, the aroma of nolen gur ...

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 ...

Delhi was explosion on my food senses. The decadent world of Mughlai cuisine left me spellbound and ...

It was sometime late October last year. The Pujas were over, Diwali was round the corner. The perfume of ...

Sheem Bhorta was not in the first draft menu I had chalked for the lunch with friends. By when a neighbour ...

It has almost become a customary ritual, a couple of my childhood friends from Assam, gathering at my place ...

Even after the euphoria of Sankranti, the celebration of Mother Earth and her produce, is long over, the ...

"হেথায় আর্য, হেথা অনার্য হেথায় দ্রাবিড়, চীন-- শক-হুন-দল পাঠান মোগল এক দেহে হল লীন। পশ্চিম আজি খুলিয়াছে ...

Has it ever happened, you are in the midst of cooking, when to utter dismay and indescribable frustration, ...