It's wistful nostalgia for me on this auspicious day of Rathyatra, the chariot festival when the Lord and his ...
Food Styling
Aam Begun (Eggplant with Green Mango)
Eggplant, as fresh as can be, plucked this morning from the kitchen garden. Droplets of rain from the ...
Thakurbarir Mango Pudding
Who would have ever imagined a rustic Pirali Brahmin girl, from a nondescript village in far-flung Jessore, ...
Enchor Kofta Pulao (Green Jackfruit Kofta Pilaf)
The vacations till now, I ruminate in agonizing frustration, have been thoroughly uneventful and ...
Enchor Murgir Korma (Chicken and Green Jackfruit Korma)
Jackfruit is in profusion this summer. The nondescript sapling Dada and I discovered in the backyard quite ...
Enchor diye Cholar Dal (Bengali Chana Dal with Green Jackfruit)
The fledgling jackruit tree Dada and I had discovered quite by chance one nondescript evening as we chased ...
Nolen Gur Panna Cotta
Winter is fading away. Silently. On hushed tiptoes. The enigma of the mist over the lake no longer greets my ...
Doi Mouri Parshe (Mullets in a Fennel Yogurt Sauce)
So when my eyes greet the gorgeous shimmering silver parshe at the Manicktala fish market during my recent ...
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 ...
My Nolen Gur and Orange Cake (My Orange Cake with Date Palm Jaggery)
Another mist-mysterious winter morning. I walk into my kitchen, an infant sun playfully projecting a ...
Satpathy Auntys Enduri Pitha, Odisha Style
The doorbell rang. The jarring shrill piercing the lull of a parched summer afternoon. A kind of ominous ...
The Anglo Indian Mutton Dakbungalow
The Raj, as any colonial historian would remind you, was perpetually on the move. Administering a ...












