by Dipali Bhasin | Jul 6, 2018 | Food, Recipes
India, through the centuries, has been a country deluged with milk. The Bhagavata Purana, the Mahabharata, and the Vishnu Purana make reference of ‘Samudra Manthan” where the Ocean of milk or Kshira Samudra was churned for the creation of amrita, the drink...
by Dipali Bhasin | Jun 17, 2018 | Food, Recipes
As a student, while my two sisters were super intelligent and found their place in the top position in the class I was pretty mediocre. I was happy with my 60 per cent and spent a considerable time outdoors. Sporty, competitive and tomboyish I would be a part of every...
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...
