Makar (Poush) Sankranti is just around the corner. This is when pithe is made in Bong homes. This weekend we had decided to stay at hom...

Let me start by wishing all my readers happy sankranti. Poush-sankranti or makar sankranti is celebrated as the harvest festival in West B...

Poush-sankranti or makar sankranti is celebrated as the harvest festival in West Bengal. Harvest festival is as expected celebrated with f...

My food scout came back and reported to me of his finding of some great home made Sondesh at his office. It was made by his colleague’s hu...

While we adopted some of the western traditions like cutting cake at birthdays we have forgotten some of our very own. Bong moms always fe...

In our childhood all the local date palm trees were used to collect date palm sap during the early Winter months. Visiting sap collectors w...