• Patishapta – Remembering poush sankranti

    August 4, 2019Tanushree Bhowmik

    Patishapta is a story to pass on to coming generations, lot of memories to hold on to and a personal experience for me. Such was my father’s love for this deceptively simple looking dessert that I often suspect that if there is anything in this world that my mother felt jealous of, it must have…

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  • The Dying Art of Chosir Payesh

    March 4, 2016Tanushree Bhowmik

    Choshir Payesh (Chosi Kheer) Have you heard of the orzo or the rizoni? These are Italian pasta! Or the ptitim? It is Isreali wheat based pasta invented during the austerity period in Israel, which later became couscous! Or the kritharáki, arpa şehriye and the arpa şehriye? These are Greek, Turkish and Arabic! What is common…

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