The Bengali meal, when allowed to showboat in all its unabated complexity, is a grandiose, multi-course affair. For very special occasions, one might be served 12 to 15 courses. But for the less spectacular, everyday meal, one would be served at least four courses, with rice holding court as the queen, without which the other…
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There’s a Certain Slant of Light
The light has changed even though the weather is not too inhospitable, not yet. But it has been dark. And the weather was oppressive last week, rainy and uncharacteristically grey, somber, even at noon. This weekend has been sunny and mild: an interstice of blue-sky warmth forestalling the arrival of winter. We went for a…
Remember the Taste 