Just brew it Published @ The Bengal Post Top shot of coffee served at a cafe in Calcutta, December 2018. Photo by author. For I have known them all already, known them all / Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons / I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. — T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. If you are brave enough to suggest changes in an Eliot poem go ahead and substitute the ‘coffee’ in the above lines with tea and you will probably… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Aug 15, 2010 | Tags: cafe, Food | Read More
Feasting from dusk to dawn Published @ Daily News & Analysis Photo by Habib Dadkhah/Unsplash We have heard about Fleet Street in London, the media hub that spawned so many stories. But meat street? Across much of urban Arabia, there are food streets where pieces and pieces upon meat of various shapes and sizes are piled, in various hues, smelling of the ‘mystic’ East’s typical flavours, hung on iron hooks dangling from intertwined ropes in dusty bazaars. For a month in autumn, Mumbai’s otherwise nondescript Mohammed Ali Road swipes… By Sayandeb Chowdhury | Oct 22, 2005 | Tags: City, Food, Travel | Read More