It is hard to explain to someone who has never had daal with crispy potato fry, how good it is. It all sounds very simple until you really...

Potol or Parwal was rarely available outside Bengal. However, with the whole world shrinking I do see them now even in the US at the local ...

[Updated] Railway mutton curry takes you back to the colonial era when travelling by first class train was for the privileged. This not to...

My first choice in cutlets is braised cutlet . While growing up I used to regularly visit Ashoka Restaurant in Behala, Kolkata for their su...

Each time we go home to Kolkata we make it a point to visit Nahoum’s in New Market . This store has been at this place from 1916. Rulers ha...

One of my cousins is getting married soon. Like all big fat Bengali weddings the menu is being planned the first. Even though the wedding ...

  Updated with new photo Vacation to a lot of Bongs meant visit to Puri, a beach city in the state of Orissa in India. For one of my maas...