Kolkata Food Festival

TREKorDIE

Good news guys........got to know from an advertisement in today's newspaper that another "Khadyotsab"(Food Festival) is going to be arranged. And that is alongwith a river cruise upto Belur Math & Dakshineswar.....Just for Rs300.

Wow!!!
What a good news........I called the ph.no. given in the advertisement and came to know that this is being arranged by a travel agency on 6th November, Sunday.......and they are thinking to continue this river cruise and food festival every sunday throughout the winter.

Interested persons have to caontact between 12.00 noon to 07.00 pm:
Pears Travels,
15, Hare Street,
(Opp. Press Trust of India)
Ph.no. 55197834 & 9830124878

FOOD LOVERS.............TIME TO MOVE YOUR BUTT



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Thank you TREKorDIE, I will be in Calcutta/Kolkata on 6th and hope to be there for the Food festival.

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somnath

Shhhhhhhhhhhh……………

Thank God Natasha is busy now.

Anyway, great info !!!!

tintin8801

what food wil be there

TREKorDIE

Delicacies from "Padma Paar", including Ilish Machh & Chingri....
can't remeber all ............why don't you make a call?


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tintin8801

why dont u post the details of food

TREKorDIE

Sorry, I've already lost today's newspaper .......must have kept in such a secured place that can't find it now..................the advertisement was on the last page of Aanada Baazaar Patrika.



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tintin8801

any way u cannot call then at this hr either!! strain ur brains

TREKorDIE

Good heavens,
found the page......

Foods to be served in the Festival (in the same language & chronology as advertised!!! ):
Bhaat
Gaaoya Ghee
Dhaani Lankaa
Daal
Gandharaaj Lebu
Ghreeto Kaanchan Begun
Garbho Mochaa
Dastaa Kochu
Kaanchaa Ilish (!!!! probably they want to say Bhapa Ilish, may be printing mistake)
Chaapraa Chingri
Khaatta
Kheerer Paatisaaptaa

and three hours river cruise!


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jyotirmoy

I think this was introduced last winter.
I am trying to translate the menu to the best of my ability.
1. Rice
2.Ghee made from cow milk(yellowish). I get mine from Nilgiri's shop in Bangalore or Parsi Dairy in Mumbai. A portion of rice is mixed with the ghee & eaten with the fried brinjal.
3. Midget green chilies. Very potent & some what risky.
Dal. It would probably be Muror Dal that is dal cooked with carp heads.
4. Lime. A variety which has a bit less tang but very strong aroma. In south of Italy I have seen similar ones. This is to be sqeezed on to the Muror Dal.
5. Long slim brinjals cut length wise fried in Ghee & served with a sprinkle of masala.
6. Banana flower dry preparation served with a garnish of crushed fried Bori(small balls made from lentil paste, hing etc. & sun dried.) For the best taste this is normally cooked in Ghee.
7. A kind of root but I dont know what is "Dasta". Normally a preparation called "Ghonto" is cooked with this type of tubor.
8. Fillets of Ilish fish cooked by the heat of steaming rice. The fish fillets are coated with turmeric, mustard paste & salt. Rice is cooked and half the portion is spread on a flat pot. The coated fish fillets along with mustard oil & green chilies are placed on the bed of hot rice & then the rest of the rice is spread over it & kept covered. The fillets are served with this rice.
9. Prawns. Not too sure at this moment the "chaapraa" preparation.
10. Sweetned reduced milk with savoury filled pancakes.
I think there will be Pan to conclude the lunch.
Regards.

jyotirmoy

This about "Chaapra Chingri". These are whitish prawns the biological name is Penaeus indicus.

Their habitat is in the bottom mud or sand. Maximum total length 184 mm (male), 228 mm (female) usually much smaller (170 mm); maximum carapace length 56 mm. Presently selling for Rs.300/ for a Kg in Delhi.
I hope they are serving Chingri Malai curry.

shubho

...as usual, when it comes to matters epicurean, you're the last word.
i think you should write a book. just put together your posts at indiamike and it'll be a surefire hit.
i'm not really a foodie, but no one's words have ever had such an effect on my tastebuds.
you're the pablo neruda of cuisine. may you live a 100 yrs.

TREKorDIE

Thanks, Gurudev ( Great Master)......for translating the menu for those who don't Understand Bengali.

When it is about cuisine..........you are the best!!!!


Even I never heard Dasta kachu and Chapra Chinri


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jyotirmoy

Thanks Subho & TREKorDIE for your compliments. At this stage of my life I have too many loose ends to tie up, with the falling eyesight even picking up the loose ends have become difficult so I neither have the time or the discipline to write a book. I will be happy if my posts have helped any body to appreciate the great cusines of India. Let me put it this way that I will find my labours rewarded if I had been able to help some body to move away from "Butter chicken" or "Chicken tikka masala" & take a bold step in to the world of Indian cooking.
Regards.

sadhuji

don't get me wrong but, out of curiousity, i checked up your profile that is meant for the commoner - a young IT man, bit difficult to digest the failing eyesight part!!!! - hajam hochhe naa.

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