An old Coffee grinder

A Tamil friend I know, has salvaged this old coffee grinder from her ancestral home near Kumarakom. It used to belong to her granny. Coffee was ground fresh everyday morning in this, and it was my friend's job, as a little girl, to grind it in this grinder. This is a Made in England, btw.

Tea drinking and we Assamese people

Fish is to the Bengali as tea is to us Assamese ( I notice that this food blog has as many Bengali contributors are there are types of ways to cook fish). So, this post on us Assamese people and our obsession with tea-drinking. You can take the “xo” out of the Oxomiya, you can…

Date cake recipe: Healthy and tasty

This post is courtesy my good friend Himani, who has been teaching us to make cakes since we were students at BITs pilani! Here's the trick for what is possibly the worlds most tasty and healthy cake ( right from the chef's mouth): Ingredients: 1 3/4 cups whole wheat flour, 1 cup dates chopped finely,…