If you take one of those heritage walks in North Calcutta, you must insist that your guide stops by at Ganesh Da’s hole in the wall food corner in Bagbazar which sells ‘macher kochuri’...
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Mala of Malabar is a Malyalam word which meals hill. Bar is a Persian word which means kingdom. Kerala had trade relations with Arab countries, hence the Persian influence. Teak, gold and spices used...
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Every Christmas I make meat balls in cranberry sauce. It is really a regular in my kitchen at the end of the year. The funny thing is that when presented with the idea of...
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I read a recipe like this in a one-pot book. Every recipe was delightful in that book. This one stayed with me. I have added my own twists to whatever I remembered and the...
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Cherry tomatoes and Indian cooking are really not that compatible. In Indian villages cherry tomatoes are ignored as they drop from plants and remain scattered on the ground. They remain like that until they...
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This recipe is a golden find for Eastern Indians who eat the fresh water fish, ‘Rohu’ and its close cousin ‘Katla’. It is such a pleasant change from the curries that get usually made...
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The word squid is a dialectical variant of the word ‘squirt’. It is obviously so called because like the octopus, squid releases ink. I know a few who would struggle between squid and prawn...
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I used to hear old tales of cooking with mustard and fish from the elders of our family. There were techniques and methods to cook the fish with mustard made less pungent using a...
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Roasting a whole chicken is really not very difficult. If you follow the steps of a recipe and you know your oven well, you can pull it off with panache. What is the trick...
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