Kalyan Karmakar
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They used to tell me stories to make me eat. Now I look for stories when I eat'. Blog: Finely Chopped. Book: Travelling Belly. Food writer. Cat dad.
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Above the sea of people and cameras was
@iamsrk
Mom and I chose wrong day to come to Bandstand for a stroll by the sea. Fully jammed here
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Dinner was at my gran’s in Kolkata.
She made me a pulao packed with kaju kishmish and katla curry.
Her cook made begun and kakrol bhaaja for me.
She shared some of her jhinge posto with me.
She’s 90 & is the reason why I keep coming back to Kolkata
#kolkatafinelychopped
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Ok, children. I have some very important life lessons to share. Today’s subject is rolls. You don’t call them ‘kathi rolls’ if you have grown up in Kolkata. It’s egg, mutton, chicken, dobol (sic) egg, egg mutton, alu etc but not kathi.
That was lesson number 1.
Thread.
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'I like Hindi movies by Shahukh. He's like Jackie Chan. Only action. No romance or theatre.' Our young Chinese Uber driver in Singapore
#SRK
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Mangshor jhol bhaat. The Uttam Suchitra of the Bengali kitchen. That’s mutton curry rice for you. Potatoes are non-negotiable.
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When a 49 year old celebrated their joint birthday with a 93 year old. Happy birthday to us Perin aunty ❤️
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Decided to go retro and ditch the selfie today and use the timer mode as we did in our initial wedding anniversaries.
Today is the 19th one. Spent safe and snug at home. With a table bursting at the seams with food. Counting our blessings, not calories!
#le19anniv
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Ranveer Singh as Kapil Dev in 83. Just brilliant. Specially the voice and diction. Eery in a good way.
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Finely Chopped: An Odia feast for Lord Ganpati in Mumbai
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Immersed wet iPhone in rice. It will either work in 48 hrs as the web says it would. Or I would have invented the world's 1st iPhone Biryani
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Anyone else feels an increase in mosquitoes at home in Mumbai?
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If there was Gobindobhog rice at home, could khichuri be far away?
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I am thrilled to announce that Finely Chopped won ‘the best food blog award’ in the
#ifba2021
awards.
Thank you readers, well wishers,
@thefbai
@VikhroliCucina
all who voted, jury and to
@kunalvijayakar
for your kind words & to
@spalifekainaz
for all the support.
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Are you a crust person when it comes to samosas? Or filling? Or both?
I am a bit partial towards the crust and have been a fan of the Punjab Sweet House, Bandra, samosas since ‘99. They get the balance just right.
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It’s my mum’s 75th birthday. I thought of coming to Kolkata to celebrate. The stars aligned. K had miles so tickets were a cinch. I booked us into the ITC Royal Bengal & the folks
@ITCHotels
have made the exp special. And the PM even gave me a hashtag idea!
#mummykaamritmahotsav
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Spent close to two weeks in Japan and not a single person said Sayonara.
Feel as if my entire life was a lie. Thank you Bollywood!
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Mindblowing Awadhi mutton pulao, mutton stew, galawati kebab, shammi kebab sent yesterday by Mumbai based, Hardoi born, banker turned home chef, Mudit Shrivastava of the Oudh Table. You can reach him at +91 98201 27626 for orders.
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Hi, I have just launched my new YouTube series
#chaimumbai
Please do click & watch
Click on like (if you like it) subscribe to the channel and share the video.
The following is an extract from it. Do click on the link to watch the complete video:
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Bhaat, daal, Jharna ghee and alu bhaaja. Soul food for this Bengali. Wasn’t always like this, but has become so over the years. The dal is orange masoor. The alu bhaaja made the way my makes it and and not the thin jhuri bhaaja.
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This is huge!
The most fun I’ve had being interviewed. Thank u so much
@Letterman
for being so gracious and all happiness. U r a gentleman sir ! Also
@netflix
&
@NetflixIndia
for having me over at NY.
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Finally the much looked forward to staycation. Any guesses where?
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A tea culture that's as vibrant as Mumbai's deserves a deep dive of its own ☕️ So follow me on this enthralling journey in my new series, Chai Mumbai, as we explore the different facets of tea in the city.
Tune in tomorrow, Sunday, 10 am, for the very first episode!
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Two, rolls are had in the evening. Or late afternoon. It’s not lunch. Not dinner. Not breakfast (unless you are repurposing last night’s rotis at home).
And… you DON’T need to add kasundi, gondhoraj lebu or make the rolls in mustard oil. There’s more to Kolkata food than this.
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Delhi’s classiest ‘new’ Indian restaurant is 79 years old. My blog post on visiting Delhi’s Kwality Restaurant.
Here’s the link:
If you have any Kwality Restaurant memories, from anywhere in India, then do share them with me pl.
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Bhaat. Dal.
Alu. Comfort in most Indian languages. National and otherwise.
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It’s pouring in Mumbai. I hope people learn from work from home experiences of the last 2 years and don’t force folks to come to work when it can be done remotely.
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As you and your friends move into your 40s and 50s, your parents and elders become increasingly fragile. You can sense the pain all around. And somewhere get a feel of your own mortality.
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I am delighted to share some great news with you. The Asian Food Congress & Awards have been most kind and awarded me in the ‘most influential food professionals’ category in a ceremony held at the Taj Lands End in Mumbai.
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Turning a year older.
In a hotel room across the building where I had first met her.
Thank you for everything
@spalifekainaz
❤️
PS: Loved the cake and the gifts.
@TridentMumbai
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I ordered some amazing Malvani pomfret fry, prawn masala and chapati from Pallavi Amberkar She’s a friend and home chef who runs ‘Flavours of Malvan.’ This is her no +91 98197 03070 and she whatsapps her specials and puts it on insta.
#mumbai
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Lovely Jagannath Temple food inspired Odia meal sent home by our friend
@sneha_senapati
from her Odia Bhojo Ganesh Puja menu last night. Light and sumptuous. Very home like.
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#FinelyChoppedConsulting
is where I bring together my two lives of that as a market researcher & that as a food writer to offer consulting services to brands in the food space:
Please get in touch if you feel that I could be of use to you and share it.
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This is the malai khaaja at Shabbir Tawakkal. A Bohri sweet. Try it if you can. I bet that you will find it to be the most decadent dessert that you’ve ever had! The sugar soaked fried and crunchy maida casing enrobed malai (cream) sweet is quite the showstopper.
#Mumbaigems
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This is how a comfort snack at grandma’s would look to any Bengali. Or ‘tiffin’ at school, college or work. I had this at home in Mumbai this evening.
Ruti with shaada alur torkari.
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May you all have friends who make luchi alu and send it for your Sunday breakfast. Metaphorically speaking.
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I am usually a calm person but nothing works me up as much seeing coriander leaves strewn on a Biryani does.
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We lost a dear friend yesterday to Covid. His last messages to me, while he waited to find a hospital (which he did), encapsulate the positivity and kindness that he stood for and which I will always remember him for.
#RIPTalha
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Dal rice alu achar. Spells comfort in most languages. Except that of dieticians perhaps!
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As far as the question of sauce is concerned, it’s simple. Parar dokan, neighbourhood shops add sauces, even cucumber, carrot & beet at times. Old school ‘Mughlai’ (Muslim run largely) restaurants in central Calcutta where the roll culture emanated from, largely do not add sauces
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The migraine, the goddess & bhoger khichuri. Bandra Saraswati Pujo, 2023.
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This picture is from Yazdani Bakery in Fort, which was set up in 1950 and where the butter is never skimped on and where the bread is always fresh and the stories most endearing.
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Our cook asks me, kaunsa plate me doo, after preparing breakfast. Maybe she knows it will go onto Instagram.
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Sunday without chicken curry rice or murgir jhol bhaat for me is Monday.
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I am a career consumer insights specialist turned food writer & work with brands in the F&B space as a brand consultant, content creator & endorser.
Bio:
Would love to hear from you at kalyan(at) if you think we could work together.
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Mom fried alu bhaaja for me and the murgir jhol lived up to the assurance that her cook had given her. Puti maach fry. Dal bhaat, chaatni, torkari.
Followed by a cat nap in my room and then we visited my mashi and mesho, where the conversation revolved around the Maharani.
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Took a bite of something which claimed to be a ‘Bengali khichuri’ today and found it to be spiked with finely chopped raw garlic and coriander leaves.
The culinary equivalent of sitting down to watch Panther Panchali and finding the opening titles of Coolie No 1 instead!
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Happy birthday to the wind beneath my wings.
I know that we are not into PDA as a couple on social media
@spalifekainaz
but if there’s a phrase which was to capture what you mean to me, this would be it! ❤️
Here’s to many happy returns, staycations and THE cake!
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Birthday dinner at the
@TridentMumbai
was an unexpected Bengali feast cooked by executive chef Saurav Banerjee whom is first met when he was
@TheOberoiGrand
Felt very loved in an evening I will cherish forever.
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Is there an everyday dish/ comfort food from your community’s heritage that emerged as a companion for you during the lockdown? For us it was the Bengali mixed vegetable dish, chorchori!
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A bit of good news to share. Been commissioned to be the lead writer for a series by
@ApplauseSocial
Work started sometime back & am lucky to have a wonderful set of people at their end to guide me through what is a new world for me. Hope to create something great together.
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Sliced onions complete a plate a of chicken curry rice. Agree? Disagree?
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You see a bowl of
#halwapurichana
I see a confluence of cultures
It’s given by a big hearted Punjabi couple to a Bengali and Parsi couple, connected together by their Buddhist practise.
The bowl is from Vietnam.
Since it is Ramzan I shared a bit with Banu for Iftar.
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A Parsi friend is getting married and her mum, also a friend, sent us mava nu boi on the happy occasion.
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A bit after midnight when we turned 21. Happy anniversary
@spalifekainaz
You are not just my lobster, but lobster Thermidor too.
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Suddenly heard a woman scream in a shocked voice, ‘she ki, mangsho khao na. Vegetarian?’
Then I realised it was a character in some Bengali serial mom was watching in the next room.
Bengalis will get this.
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Something I dreaded for happened. My mum got covid. Luckily she was with my brother. My sis in law got it too. Both recovering 🤞🏽A Gurgaon home chef I reached out to sent meals everyday. I don’t think I have done anything to deserve such goodness. I am pretty sure it’s her heart.
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I’ll finish 15 years of food blogging in a fortnight. I know that most of you, barring the cat people, are here because of my food posts. Of late I have found joy in slice of life features & feel that I have reinvented myself as a writer. I hope that you accept me for this too.
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My message to fellow Mumbaikars. Don’t overlook south Mumbai as a vacation spot. Add the travel money saved to your stay budget and choose a good hotel. Explore the fab new restaurants opening up.And the old timers. Take in the great architecture. Say hello to the sea. Pure love.
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Bengali Twitter. Deemer jhol with bhaat. Or ruti?
There is a certain joy in breaking the kushum into the rice and blending it with a bit of the jhol and having it right?
You will find my egg curry recipe on my YouTube channel Finely Chopped TV :
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And my grandmother turned 90 today. According to the birth date that my late grandfather had chosen for his bride, after they had got married, for paperwork purposes.
Her actual date of birth was not recorded when she was born.
My mom sent me this picture of my grandmom today.
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They are the ones who use kaathi kebabs. In the suburbs, it’s a sort of kosha mangsho that goes in.
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Thanks for making every birthday so special. And everyday too. And for the loveliest cake message. And for being the Lotus to my Biscoff
@spalifekainaz
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In the kitchen with some 25 years in between and in two opposite ends of the country.
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What a night it was! At the
#IFBA2017
#IFBAAtJWJuhu
awards. The suspense till the category was finally announced & then going up to stage to receive the
#BestGeneralFoodBlog
award. Thank you
@FBAi
, the jury, all who voted for me, my readers. A truly precious moment!
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This is something I am super proud about. Soam has dish named after me in their Khichdi Festival. Kalyan Karmakar’s Khichdi. That’s our Bengali khichuri. First time that a dish has been named after me & I am most touched. Thanks Pinky, Ratika & Riccha.
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It’s my dad’s birthday today.
We get flowers to offer him on other years.
Cookies and chocolates are a better idea if you ask me and I am sure he’d agree.
Happy birthday daddy ❤️
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On eleven years of food blogging.
It’s happy birthday time on Finely Chopped:
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The picture of the trip for me.
I had hoped against hope for 19 months for this day to come. All I can do is to urge all of you to not lose hope either.
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As I realised over the past few months, after I embarked on a journey that I call
#littlejackhornermeals
, the best ‘food styling’ props are freshly made home cooked food, vegetables, dals, rotis and natural sunlight. Pretty plates help. What’s your take on this?
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I see a lot of posts urging people with clinical depression to open up to people. It doesn’t work that way. They usually can’t.
Reaching out to them can make a great difference though.
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Went to a restaurant called Maaslii the other day that served GSB. Click and read to know what happened next:
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I just realised that I am going to complete 12 years of blogging in a few months & have reached a stage now where I just can’t stop blogging. And I am loving it!
I remember a time a few years back where I’d lost my urge to write. And I do truly feel thankful for the turnaround.
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There’s apparently a restaurant in Mumbai where you can pay money & break plates. It’s supposed to be an ‘authentic’ Greek experience. I normally don’t comment on things in the industry but surely there’s a better and more sensitive way to encapsulate the Greek spirit?
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My first breakfast when I land in Kolkata? If you know me well, you will know the answer. Luchi chholar dal it is.
#indianfood
#bengalifood
#finelychoppedbreakfasts
#locallove
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I don’t know why it’s so hard for folks to accept that I don’t drink. Nothing personal. I don’t like alcohol anymore & consuming it makes me uneasy. That’s all. In the past I’d say I am on pain killers. Now I say I am allergic to alcohol. Not as alllergic as I am to pushiness!
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How to say Sunday lunch in Bangla.
(Pressure cooker mangshor jhol & gobindobhog bhaat called in from Oh! Calcutta)
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