Bangladeshi restaurateurs have been cooking a northern Indian menu on East 6th Street for decades, ignoring their own cuisine. Now the powerful Bengali food has come out of the closet at places like ...

With countless rivers surrounding West Bengal, fish is a major attraction, with rohu, pabda and koi being the popular ones. Known to be the land of Machch (fish), preparing a variety of fish ...

Beef jhura at Mezban House Photo: Courtesy of Mezban House In this beef eater’s town, there is always some new cow to go on about: the steaks, dry-aged and otherwise. Faddish new burgers. Barbecued ...

At first glance, Chettinad, Kashmiri, and Bengali food feel like they belong to completely different worlds. Chettinad dishes are fiery and packed with spices, Kashmiri food is slow-cooked and ...

Have you ever had pui metuli or know what it is? This unique winter vegetable is actually the seeds of Malabar spinach, also known as Ceylon spinach, Indian spinach, poi saag, or pui shaak in Bengali.

At the recent German Christmas Market in Delhi, a cookbook titled Recipes from an Urban Village by Charmaine O’Brien caught my eye at The Hope Project’s stall. It had recipes from the Nizamuddin Basti ...

Hyderabad: When Suparna Tikadar struggled with her equipment on the final day of ‘The Flavour Games’ at the Telangana Bengali Film Festival, Bindu Bhandari handed her a spare ‘kadhai’. She could have ...