Bengali Cuisine

This volume on Bengali cooking is a treasure trove of authentic traditional recipes culled out from the collective repertoire of mothers grandmothers aunts family retainers and friends. It must be noted that food and cooking in Bengal is more than mere gastronomy-it is in fact both an emotional and sentimental experience. Every season has its own menu and every mother her own special recipes whose flavor and fragrance remain embedded in ones memory. Bengali cooking is seen as a fine art which begins from shopping for good quality fish and vegetables to the way in which they are cut and diced for different preparations.