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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While I have not yet travelled to Mexico, I have been to a few cities of Spain. The fiery food cultures of both cuisines which are similar with some delicate dissimilarity speak to me....
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Guess who was a pickle merchant before he discovered the land of plenty? Amerigo Vespucci, on whom ‘America’ was named, was a pickle merchant before he became an explorer. What were the odds? Clearly...
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While we do know that cabbage with vinegar is considered as a good hangover remedy, there is a cabbage lore which probably precedes this remedial tactic. The lore goes as that Egyptian pharaohs would...
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I absolutely adore the nuttiness that Black rice exudes. The fragrance is woody, the taste nutty. I do not even want to discuss the gorgeous purple colour it lends. I have written somewhere before...
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October weather in Mumbai is not much cooler than summer. While it is the festival season and the ladies of the city indulge in their traditional silk which is so different from the otherwise...
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Everyone has grown up with once a week breakfast to be homemade French toasts. They are easy-peasy, wholesome and qualify as soul food. They are probably one of the first dishes one learns to...
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