Peanuts on the road

2014-09-10

This time I am in a new country in Africa….Malawi. I came here by Ethiopian Airlines and my destination city is Blantyre. Indian Ocean coastline on my...

2014-09-09

At our home, ripe papaya is the ubiquitous summer fruit. We love the delicious sweet fleshy fruit so much that we simply eat it on its own. At most, we...

2014-09-03

Kolkata has no dearth of Chinese restaurants. In fact, if you head to Park Street, Kolkata’s most celebrated eat-street, you will find a Chinese eatery...

2014-08-22

In Florence, we stayed with the fabulous Carla and her family at her B&B – Bed and Breakfast  Leonardo Da Vinci . If you find hotels too impersonal...

2014-08-20

I had a number of things on my Florence list, food-wise. The item I was most excited as well as most apprehensive about was trying out offal. Lampredotto...

2014-07-31

Is there a better way to while away a cool Sunday afternoon in Darjeeling than sipping on a hot cup of tea at the Mall? This summer, while on our family...

2014-06-26

Recently, the Kolkata Food Bloggers got an invitation from Swissôtel to attend the re-launch of the Sunday brunch menu at their restaurant Durbari. The...

2014-06-25

It is not everyday that you meet a legend of Indian cuisine and have the privilege of sampling some of his dishes. So when, as a part of the Kolkata Food...

2014-05-27

Once when I was a foreign exchange student in Germany, I had the opportunity to set up a weather station in the Black Forest or Schwarzwald near Freiburg...

2014-05-15

Water spinach or Kolmi saag as it is known in Bengali is a local delicacy. In this recipe, we present a Sri-Lankan twist to a Bengali classic –...