Traditional Bengali Recipes

Jeere Morich diye Murgir Jhol (Chicken Stew with Cumin and Peppercorn)

The fifth morning of lockdown. We are getting used to blissful time-stop-still mornings - ...

Its the fourth morning of the lockdown. The tension in the air is palpable. There’s uncertainty. There’s ...

The giants have been a dismal failure, S and I discuss as we sip our morning coffee. It is the third morning ...

The second day of lockdown and I wake up to a world of uncanny calm. No noxious fume-belching yellow ...

The first day of the lockdown and we were thoroughly under-prepared. We knew it was coming, we were rather ...

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 ...

Time flies, on rosy wings. As yet another decade draws to a close, I cannot but revert to the studio ...

We hunted. We fished. We foraged. Earthy food. Clean flavours. Redolent of the earth and the rivers. The ...

I am a kid who’s just been gifted a new toy, one that I had dreamt about but really never expected to ...