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What’s the one thing that EVERYBODY loves? Chocolate. What’s the one thing you can never get enough of? Chocolate. What’s the one thing that calms you down when you’re nervous or makes you feel good when you’re depressed? Chocolate. What’s a dietician’s guiltiest pleasure? CHOCOLATE! Sweet, bitter, dark, white.. chocolates …

I don’t have a recipe to share, but I can still make your mouth water! Yes, I am talking about all time everyone’s favourite CHAAT CORNERS! Rightly said, “DIL WALLO KI DILLI” is indeed a central hub of street food. Indeed, Delhi makes people chatore. Chaat is the most delicious fascination …

“My grand dad eats it with that one tooth he has.” I think it states it all. A tried and tested recipe, the 24*7 hit. It might be a hype to say this but it won’t last more than a week. Children are going to grab and cousins are going to …

Being born into a rural family, I got to taste cakes very infrequently and so I just loved cakes-that intricate delicacy I could munch upon once an year. Time flew and I grew up and my family moved to the city. Here, I found all varieties of cakes during my …

No more buying readymade packets to make caramel pudding! Here’s the recipe to your rescue. No more restricted to non-vegetarians, here it is, eggless and even better than the egg version; a child’s love and luscious French desert. Delicious custard coated with crunchy caramel, a desert found all around the …

MOMO is a Chinese dish and is spread all over Nepal (India’s neighbouring country) and also in most of the northern part of India, north east to be precise. You can get it in any Chinese restaurant all over India. But today we would like to help you prepare it …

On your way back home from your office, you catch a fleeting glimpse of the overcrowded roadside shops filled with bright, extravagant lamps and suddenly, the realization that the festival of lights is on it’s way dawns upon you. For some, Diwali means reckless spending of cash; for others, it’s …

One of the most balanced and wholesome meal that can be made easy, by oneone is perhaps Khichdi or what the bengalees call Kichuri. It is nothing but a mixed preparation of rice and pulse, sometimes with added vegetable. The process is quite simple and anyone can cook it. The …

We Bengalis are snobs in terms of our preferences about food. Having been brought up on food which our mothers painstakingly cooked for hours, there  isn’t much of a choice as such. And then there is that obsession which we have for fish, of every form and variety. The combination …

Ah potatoes ! these unassuming little tubers have been a staple food for most of the world, sadly, their prime contributions to the world of fast food, Ala the Fries and the chips has been blamed for everything from obesity to laziness to global warming. but potatoes have a lot more to …