The Sienna kitchen team celebrated ‘Bangla ranna’ with Vir Sanghvi and other delegates of the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival. ... highlighting distinctly regional ingredients and recipes that are ...

And thanks to Chitra’s Bangla ranna, the lush landscape of Bengal returned to envelop me in its warm embrace again. Ki chomotkar, i heard the hon Bong in me saying: How wonderful is that.

But it wasn’t just about what they cooked; rather it was about how they cooked it. “The Tagores used many ingredients and techniques that were unheard of in most Bengali homes of that era.

There are several traditional Bengali items on the menu like Kumro Pata Kucho Chingri Paturi, a shrimp dish with steamed pumpkin leaves wrapped around shrimp marinated in grated coconut and mustard ...