by Dipali Bhasin | Apr 20, 2018 | Food, Recipes
Did you know that dals were virtually unknown in ancient Bengali cuisine? This is one stark difference between the ancient and contemporary foods of Bengal. The superabundant supply of fish, thanks to its terrain meshed with rivers, delayed the use of pulses as a rich...
by Dipali Bhasin | Mar 31, 2018 | Food, Recipes
To be honest! I hated bitter gourd or Karela as we call them in India when I was a child. So bitter! I mean, which school going kid likes Karela or for that matter Parmal, Ghiya, Tori. Yuck! Where these green vegetables are concerned, Mom tried her level best to...
by Dipali Bhasin | Feb 21, 2018 | Food, Recipes
Winters bring with it memories of Kanpur, an industrial and highly populous city in Uttar Pradesh. It is also the place where every December we would go to spend our winter vacations with my grandmother, or Nani as we called her. The hustle bustle in Shivala, Kanpur...
by Dipali Bhasin | Dec 18, 2017 | Food, Recipes
The headlines, a few months back, caught my attention “National War Memorial at Princess Park set to be unveiled on Independence Day 2018”. Like a dam had burst open, memories flooded back to yesteryears. The reason is that when Dad got his posting in the...
by Puru iZenesis Support | Nov 23, 2017 | Food, Recipes
The one thing that’s in the mind of any mother is how to feed a good dose of vegetables to her children each day. As kids, whenever Mom would make Semolina Upma we would scrunch our noses up and make a face because the taste somehow never appealed to us....
by Dipali Bhasin | Oct 30, 2017 | Food, Recipes
Being the daughter of an Armed Forces officer, I have changed six schools in my life in different parts of India. Out of these, three were convents and three public schools. Even though the exposure to Christianity was great and we celebrated Easter and Christmas with...
