About a year ago, I posted an entry about a green apple chicken salad. I am partial to chicken salad, and even more partial to apples in a chicken salad. With a bit of tart and a bite of sweet, a crunchy apple offers just the right complement to the celery and cranberries which accompany…
Category: Poultry
Spring Chickens
It’s time. Yesterday I went to the garden center and bought pink dahlias, purple daisies, and some fancy dirt. Also floppy petunias, striated coleus and the start of a little herb garden. I am a city gardener, a small timer who dwells on the third floor and has access to a back deck overlooking a…
Indian-Chinese
I’d like to introduce a subgenre of Bengali cuisine known as Indian-Chinese cuisine. Kolkata once had a large and flourishing Chinatown, which was established in the late eighteenth century. Chinese scholars and traders have traveled throughout India for thousands of years, and a few hundred years ago, Chinese merchants settled in what is today central…
More or Less
Once I began to live on my own, I cooked via trial and error quite a bit, especially when I was in college and was at a loss for precise measurements and cooking techniques. I learned how to make murgir jhol, not through a recipe, but rather by “helping.” That is, I stood next to…
Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I like the contemporary spirit of Thanksgiving – the notion that we might come together with our families and friends and give thanks to people, gestures, ideas, things that make our lives better, more luminous somehow. Sentimental, I know, but I like the ritual and the everyday magic that accompanies…
Remember the Taste 