Traditional Bengali Recipes

Chachi’s Chingrir Roshbora ( Shrimp Dumplings in Coconut Milk)

Bapi chose to remain uncannily reticent whenever Dada and I quizzed him about his and Grandma's migration ...

I am hardly ten. Just the age when the tragic enigma of Death has started to loom large on my psyche. I am ...

Bapi hardly spoke of his growing up years in what is today Bangladesh. Grandma would inevitably slip into ...

The sight of the moringa tree in a neighbours garden, abloom with pristine ivory buds, makes me return to ...

Winter has taken a bow. The migratory birds that had thronged the lake have long departed for cooler ...

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

What’s gota sheddho? I ask S when we are alone that evening. All the cousins were speaking of this ...

Just a couple of days before I head back home, Maa and I are at our local vegetable market and that the array ...

Wake up, Bapi whispers into my ears, the bus shall be here at six sharp. Ten more minutes, I request ...

A close friend sends me a gorgeous cabbage from her garden this morning. It’s not easy to grow cabbage, she ...

The shrill of the telephone bell punctuates the serene tranquil of a mist-laced autumn-melting-into-winter ...

Manikkaka gets home a plump little cauliflower, august with its pompous crown of green. I am elated. We are ...