First, my apologies for this long absence from my blog. Much of my time and energy over the last two months was spent on travel to and in India. My initial plan was to visit the popular food joints in the different cities that I was visiting (primarily Calcutta), and to recreate the recipes at…
How to make chicken kathi roll? I left my hometown, Calcutta, exactly seven years ago. Since then, Calcutta has become something of a vacation home for me, where I get to go only once every year to enjoy my mom’s home-cooked food, the company of my beautiful family and friends, chicken Kathi rolls, and the…
An archival research for a paper that I am currently working on at my university library yielded me, to my pleasant surprise, with five volumes of the Punya (1897-1906), a periodical, women’s magazine, that began as an in-house publication of the Tagore family of Jorasanko. Besides publishing works on fiction, poetry, essays, advertisements etc., it also contained numerous…