Wish to try a hand at Nakshipithe? Try out the following recipe: INGREDIENTS • Ground short-grained rice • Banana leaf • Oil • Date palm thorns or needles • Paddy blades and bamboo sticks METHOD OF PREPARATION • Mix ground rice in boiled water till a paste forms and then flatten it with the
Here is some sweet first to the New Year! If you mix the extravagance of rosogolla with that of a piece of vintage Kolkata, you produce one of the most visited food fests of the city. So, do not miss the first ever Bagbazar O-
A certain news had hit the headlines last week and raised quite a flutter! That of the iconic Jewish bakery of Nahoum’s in New Market being slapped with Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s notice for lack of cleanliness in serving the cakes as well as while preparing
Christmas is incomplete without an apple pie on the table. It truly is a comfort food for many. The principle ingredient here is apple. Occasionally, people also serve it with cheese or ice-cream. Though there are various ways of cooking it like Dutch style, English
Christmas Plum Pudding is the perfect way to end your Christmas meal. The origin of this dessert lies in medieval England. It is called ‘pud’ in many places. Despite having the name ‘plum pudding’, it contains no plums. Raisins in those days were called ‘plums’
Christmas season surrounds us with an air of festivities and irresistible excitement. In every part of the world, people gear up for Christmas, spreading love, lighting candles, homecoming, gifts, and of course hundreds of sweet delicacies that this festival has to offer. Christmas plum cake
Je radhe, shey chul-o badhe (the woman who cooks, also knows how to make her hair look good)… in other words a woman is a superwoman who does all kinds of chores. This was a very common sentence often used by our mothers and grandmothers.
Momos have become an integral part of Kolkata’s street food. Food lovers simply love the concept of these soft, juicy dough balls with the combination of spicy and pungent dip, especially when they come for throwaway prices. Easy to make, healthy to eat – at
Krishnanagar is not just about dolls, it is also about Sarpuria and Sarvaja. And when it comes to sweets, nothing can beat the century-old shop of Adhar Chandra Das & Sons. People from all over Bengal come here to savour their mouth-watering sweets including the
Opaar Bangla always carried a whiff of nostalgia for all families whose forefathers had to leave their motherland as refugees. It was a land of huge food resources, sometimes in excess, that led to developing a very rich cuisine, popularly known as Bangaal Ranna. We