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…
What is the food that always travels with people from your region?
Kanchuki & I were laughing a few days about how people from Assam always carry tamul-paan (areca nut & betel leaves) where ever they go. They will take out their small filigreed metal cases of tamul & paan and delicately pull out a single leaf, wrap the tamul in it, place it in their mouths…
Roll over…
You would all agree that for people like us, memories that have anything to do with food are often more vivid than any other. That probably explains the length of this post. It wasn’t meant to be this long but the memories just kept getting sharper and more detailed as I went along and I…
A Poem: My Wife’s Cooking
(re-posting from my blog, http://appapappa.com/?p=278) My Wife's Cooking I come to the table preoccupied You serve me dal with rice, Simple to cook, done in a jiffy - 3/4th cup dal, 2 cups water, Turmeric, and a pinch of salt - Boil, boil, till it is done. Then the tadka, a splatter in hot oil Of…
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