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Gaad Monj (Kashmiri Fish Curry with Knol Knol)

Our first journey to Srinagar began, as perhaps all first journeys there should, on the waters ...

Bipattarini Pujo arrived in our childhood home wrapped in red. Red hibiscus lay heaped on brass plates, ...

It is that time of the year again. The week when the wheels of Lord Jagannath’s mighty chariot begin to ...

A cluster of coconut trees stood like silent sentinels at the edge of our backyard — impossibly tall, lean ...

This story begins on a sultry summer day of the mid 90s in Madhyamgram. Still a quiet afterthought on the map ...

In Bengal, nothing is ever truly wasted. Not the peel of a gourd, not the stems of greens, not even ...

There is a certain unruliness to pui shaak that I have always admired. It does not grow—it advances. It ...

The fruit vendor arrives like a quiet herald of indulgence, his basket brimming with cherries—plump, taut, ...

Madurai is an ancient enchantress - she does not reveal herself all at once. She unfolds slowly to the ...

I first experienced Watalappam on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, on a lazy, sun-scorched afternoon. Lunch ...

Some dishes arrive not in grand Michelin-starred restaurants, but in nondescript hole-in-the-wall places ...

There are places where food is sustenance, and there are places where food is memory — stitched with longing, ...