by Anindya | Feb 24, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
Have you ever watched Cheteswhar Pujara before every delivery he faces? He holds the bat close to his chest, fixes the grip, takes the right hand lowest possible to the neck and the left hand on top of it. I almost follow a similiar ritual when I eat a parshe machh or...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Feb 21, 2019 | Eating Out, Food, Foodblog |
Kolkata Nostalgia is a very powerful emotion and there is abundance of it in Raajkutir’s all day dining, East India Room. It is the stained glass windows and the row of marble fountains that immediately catch your attention, as you move towards East India Room...
by Anindya | Feb 13, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
Valentine’s day and Archies It was on our way back from some work, the car was passing through an Archies Store and I asked Madhushree – Do they still make so much business as before? An Archies store may not mean anything to millennials but anyone born in...
by Anindya | Feb 11, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
The discussion between Amitav Ghosh and Sunita Narayan at Terra Madre Salone Del Gusto had an impact on me in many ways. One of the key takeaway of that session was that in spite of all of us knowing that climate change is the biggest effect that we have had in...
by Madhushree Basu Roy | Feb 7, 2019 | Food, Foodblog |
Most people associate Bengali cuisine as consisting of primarily ‘macher jhol’ or fish curry. It is a very common misconception that Bengalis eat mosty non vegetarian food and that our specialities revolve around fish curry and kosha mangsho, finishing...