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5 Best Book Cafes In Kolkata For The Perfect Read

With its blend of modern storytelling and old-fashioned charm, Kolkata has its own spin on it. These days, you can find bookshops in cafés all around the city. All of them offer spaces for reading, writing, or simply remaining calm. Some even have a blind date with a book, while others serve strong chai or gourmet brews.

6 min read
Oct 24, 2025

Chhath Puja 2025: Authentic Bihari Desserts To Relish

Sweeten your Chhath Puja with Bihar’s most cherished desserts. Each bite tells a story of devotion, harvest, and heritage, turning simple ingredients into soulful offerings of love and tradition.

4 min read
Oct 24, 2025

Swiss Chocolate: A Weekend Mistake That Gave Us Lindt Chocolates

As a chocolate lover, nothing brings me more joy than the fact that a chocolate museum and factory exist in real life. The desire to explore the only chocolate factory that holds the secrets of how Swiss chocolate became what it is today is beyond anything I dreamt of. When I booked a ticket to Lindt House Of Chocolate, all I could see was tons and tons of liquid chocolate being pumped and turned into Lindor truffles, Lindt bars and more.

6 min read
Oct 24, 2025

Traditional Bengali Desserts Perfect For The Winter Season

The weather is slowly transitioning from warm and humid to pleasant and wintry. Bengal is also gearing up for a lot of festivals and celebrations throughout the remaining months. The most important element, mishti or dessert, takes centre stage with seasonal ingredients like nolen gur and patali gur. It is infused into desserts like sandesh, roshogolla, payesh, naru, pithe and more.

4 min read
Oct 23, 2025

5 Easy-to-Digest Foods For Post-Festive Recovery

After indulgent festive meals, soothe your stomach with light, nourishing foods. From moong dal khichdi to curd rice, these easy-to-digest dishes help restore balance, aid digestion, and keep you feeling refreshed and energised post-celebration.

4 min read
Oct 23, 2025

5 Traditional Indian Winter Desserts You Must Try

From nutty halwas to jaggery-laced chikkis, Indian winters taste best with these timeless sweets. Each dessert brings warmth, nostalgia, and comfort — the perfect reason to indulge when the temperature dips and cravings rise.

4 min read
Oct 23, 2025

Patishapta: Bengal’s Take On Sweet Crepes Stuffed With Coconut

In Bengal, festivals are incomplete without sweets. Summers or winters, the state has a sweet for each and every wind of change. The 12-month Bengali calendar mentions 13 festivals across it. Each has a dessert dedicated to welcome the arrival. This is where the concept of ‘pitha’ and ‘pithe’ come into play. It mostly consists of 'dudh puli' and 'pathishapta.' Pathishapta is a sweet crepe stuffed with jaggery and coconut.

4 min read
Oct 23, 2025

Cooking For My Firefly: Malvika Singh’s Feast Of Memory & Flame

From soufflés to saris, the cultural doyenne’s new memoir is a love letter to food, friendship, and andaaza — the instinct that turns a meal into memory.

6 min read
Oct 23, 2025

Slurrp Reviews: Little Bit Sober Brings Calcutta In A Glass

Considered to be the first-ever artisanal cocktail bar in Kolkata, LBS has changed the way cocktails are sipped. And rightly so. ‘Friends Of The Bar’ is the chapter that makes you look at Calcutta and its cocktails in a new light. An expert mixologist maintains a closely defined timeline, keeping the majority of the ingredients in-house, from syrups to infusions, to guarantee accuracy and taste.

8 min read
Oct 24, 2025

Baking With Arghya Ingredients Used In Chhath Puja Themed Preparations

The four-day period of the surya arghya ritual performed during chhath puja involves taking a holy bath, fasting, standing in water for long periods as well as making a host of edible offerings. As an ode to the festival, giving traditional offerings a gourmet touch using a few tweaks to upgrade it in an oven, can influence its flavours and textures significantly.

4 min read
Oct 23, 2025

Air Fryer Alternatives For Deep-Fried Chhath Puja Snacks

Chhath Puja is incomplete without the crunchy thekua, deep-fried puris paired with kaddu kabzi, and staple sweets like kasar. But if you’re worried about the excess oil used to make the deep-fried snacks, you can simply switch to air-fryer alternatives and still celebrate the festival the traditional way.

4 min read
Oct 23, 2025

Chhath Puja 2025: Must-Have Traditional Foods For The Rituals

This Chhath Puja 2025, savour these five traditional foods that blend devotion and flavour. From crisp thekua to silky rasiyaw, each dish tells a story of faith, festive joy, and the timeless celebration of the Sun God’s blessings.

4 min read
Oct 23, 2025

Got Leftover Diwali Sweets? Try These Creative Dessert Ideas

Don’t let your leftover Diwali sweets go to waste! Transform them into quick, creative desserts like gulab jamun cheesecake or ladoo milkshake: fresh, delicious makeovers that keep the festive sweetness alive.

4 min read
Oct 23, 2025

5 Lesser-Known Pearl Millet Dishes To Relish This Winter Season

Pearl millet—or bajra—as it is most commonly known, is a winter staple grain that is vastly consumed in simple forms of rotis or khichdi. The nutrient-dense grain, which is associated with multiple health benefits, can also be extended in its consumption during the season, by incorporating it across a variety of preparations that go beyond the quintessential.

5 min read
Oct 23, 2025

The Science Of Food Addiction: When Eating Behaves Like A Drug

From sugar highs to dopamine rushes, new research shows that ultra-processed foods may hijack the brain’s reward system much like nicotine or alcohol — raising critical questions about how we define addiction itself.

7 min read
Oct 22, 2025

Chhath Puja Special Thekua Recipe Gets An Air Fryer Twist

Considered to be the traditional offering snack of Chhath Puja, the Bihari thekua is a delicacy that is also native to Uttar Pradesh and Nepal. Traditionally deep-fried, the mildly sweet, cookie-like texture can also be achieved with lesser ghee by using an air-fryer technique for golden-brown results.

4 min read
Oct 22, 2025

Prawn Chips: Know More About The Must-East In Kolkata

When it comes to all cuisines on a plate, the city of Kolkata never fails to showcase its culinary prowess. From baked roshgolla, kathi rolls, biryani to street food like phucka, jhalmuri, ghoti gorom, it keeps on going. Among a few must-east snacks is prawn chips; crunchy, looks like a blooming flower in white with a slight orange-ish border. It’s a snack that you’ll see anyone and everyone munching on when they order Chinese food or have a drink.

7 min read
Oct 22, 2025

Govardhan Puja 2025: The Meaning Behind The Annakut Feast

Annakut is made using different ingredients. All ingredients are counted, including salt. Annakut translates to ‘mountain of food.’ Annakut or Govardhan Puja is a day when Hindu devotees prepare and present copious amounts of food in devotion to Mount Govardhan. Observed in many parts of India, each community contributes its own special flair and traditions to the celebrations.

5 min read
Oct 22, 2025

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