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Sunday, January 10, 2016

A Post on the Ploughshares Blog: Where Food and Literature Collide

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I am pleased to share my recent post from the blog of the U.S. literary magazine Ploughshares : " Woolf at the Table: Good Dinner, Goo...
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A Serendipitous Discovery: Australian Television Story on Food Bloggers

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It was my daughter who did the discovery recently -- well, a couple of months ago. My 10-year-old, who is an expert in Googling, found ou...
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Monday, June 29, 2015

A Peppery Flavor, Lost in a Sandwich

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My mother, at 80 years of age, has an uncanny sense of smell in regard to cooking. The other day, while eating a sandwich, she hankered aft...
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Saturday, May 16, 2015

In Search of Bori on a Sweltering Morning

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I walk to a neighborhood bazaar, full of hope, on a sweltering morning. I reach the store in anticipation of the one thing I have been lo...
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Friday, May 01, 2015

Writing about the food of Bengal

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Talking about Bengali cooking, one of the finest food writers of our time is Chitrita Banerji. I have just finished reading her Eating ...
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Monday, November 19, 2012

Global vs. local cuisine: Does it makes sense?

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My mother mostly cooks Bengali food, but sometimes she goes global unwittingly. Hey, wait a minute! Maybe I am wrong -- global is a misnom...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Poppy seeds are small, but big in flavor - I

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One of Bengal's best-known -- and most homey and delicious -- vegetarian dishes is alu posto, or potato with poppy seeds. Poppy seeds...
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Monday, November 05, 2012

The story of a lemon

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I love lemon -- despite its negative connotation in informal meanings. And the kind of lemon I like most is gandharaj lemon, available on...
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