Traditional Bengali Recipes

Jhinge Kumro Paturi (Ridgegourd and Pumpkin with Mustard and Coconut)

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 ...

There are days when Dada is outrageously fussy with his food and worse still, for no comprehensible reason. ...

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

A friend of mine and I decide to catch up over lunch. It's over a decade that she had been out of the ...

Manikkaka looks up anxiously at the charcoal-scarred sky. It is barely nine am this June morning, the first ...

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 ...

I wake up to the pitter-patter of raindrops on my window pane. A grey morning. A truant sun playing ...

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

Today is Eid-Al-Fitr, the day which marks the end of the holy month of Ramdan, a day synonymous with ...

It's wistful nostalgia for me on this auspicious day of Rathyatra, the chariot festival when the Lord and his ...