Have you heard of a strangely named dish called begun-puri? You must have heard of begun pora, that many Bengali households cook as an alternate to the North Indian begun bharta. Well, this is not just a strange dish as suggested by renowned author and
Jalpaiguri’s ‘Lalmohan’ sweets have been a gourmet delight for the people of North Bengal since long. Phoolbari of Jalpaiguri was once a de-serted town, where refugees from Bangladesh’s Myemensingha district had relocated after Partition. One of them, Manindramohan Ghosh is said to have started making
It is often said Bengalis are born with a sweet tooth. No sweet desserts of any country are as varied and tasty with a historical past as Bengali sweets are. But a look into history brings out how European traders and pirates who plundered the
Tucked in a by-lane of Kidderpore, Young Bengal Hotel’s rust-red door leads to modest interiors. A non-frill, table and bench affair with no fancy décor, you might feel like a time-traveller, transported to a century for a wholesome meal at a pice hotel. The concept of
British chef Angus Denoon fell in love with jhalmuri, the favourite snack of Kolkata while shooting a film about the wide variety of scrumptious street food of the city. He closely observed various people, mastered the art of making perfect Jhalmuri. Angus returned to UK
Food adulteration has been a constant cause for the rising cancer cases in India. Over the last decade the country has seen almost a 60 per cent jump in cancer patients and other than pollution, the second most important reason for cancer seems to be
The smoky, dull skyline of Kolkata turns into a riot of colours as dusk descends. Children shrieking and playing in parks, lanes or on roof tops wind up the day’s match and reluctantly drag their feet, all homeward bound. And then suddenly, the faint tinker
Nothing can inspire a Bengali soul more than a bite on their favourite sweets or tasting that hot koraishutir kochuri or a Sunday meal of Panthar Mangsher Jhol! Food and Bengalis are inseparable. The amalgamation of Purba and Paschim Bangla has given on the Bengali
He loves watching butterflies and birds sitting for hours. That’s how legendary cricketer Arun Lal meditates. In an exclusive rendezvous with an audience of organic food lovers on how he has been fighting his rare neuron-transmitted cancer for over a year, Arun Lal had one
For the rest of the world, rice might be just a staple grain for consumption. But for Bengalis, it is no ordinary meal. It is an auspicious and divine grain in the eastern part of India. In all our festivities from birth till death, rice