I have been blogging for some time now. While my blogs have touched various nooks and crannies of Bengali and Indian cuisine but some...

One of my most ardent readers is now one of my very good friend and neighbor. One day over tea we were discussing, how hard it is to make c...

  Yesterday I met with a bunch of friends for our monthly adda session. One of our friends had posted on Facebook, delicious photos of pra...

One of our friends kept raving about some Dahl Puri which he had at a small restaurant in Seattle. He was so impressed that I had to also t...

In our school, it was a very common to see that a bunch of folks remained hungry with a box full of alur dum or ghugni at the end of the lun...

Medu vada or vadai is a common South Indian snacks. Everyone seems to make them at home. However, really good quality medu vada simply stan...

Laccha means coil or bundle. As this name suggests this paratha is made by coiling dough together. Essentially instead of following the fla...

My first love is Mutton Braised cutlet. I used to always head to our neighborhood “Ashoka Café” to get my fix. However, sometimes I used to...

Close to where I grew up there was this small café called Ashoka Restaurant in Behala Kolkata. They made the best cutlets ever with Goat cho...

If I landed at my husband’s (my then classmate’s) home around evening, I’d always find him gorging on this Hakka noodles. Obviously I’d ge...

Our Kolkata college memories are filled with standing infront of the local phuchka vendor starting the conversation with “দাদা টাকায় কটা...